Mother Gets More Than 7 Years For Videotaping Kids Having Sex
EVERETT, Wash. -- A woman who directed and videotaped her two children and an older teenager having sex at her home has been sentenced to seven years and three months in prison.
Michelle Lynn Houser, 34, of Bothell, who pleaded guilty last fall to second-degree child molestation and two counts of sexual exploitation of a minor, wept as she told Snohomish County Superior Court Judge Richard J. Thorpe her crimes were out of character.
"I just know I would never do anything like this again to my children, anyone's children," Houser said.
The sentence issued by Thorpe followed the recommendation of prosecutors. Defense lawyer Natalie Tarantino proposed a prison term of about a year less, at the bottom of the standard range.
Houser's boyfriend, David Ernest Hill, 34, also of Bothell, faces trial next month on several charges in the case.
Investigators said Hill and Houser allowed her son, 13, and daughter, 15, and a 17-year-old girl who was a friend of the daughter to watch pornographic movies and drink alcohol on July 16, then filmed them having sex.
One of the girls was so drunk she couldn't remember what had happened, deputy prosecutor Janice Albert said.
"This is a very disturbing case," Albert said. "This was a brutal act."
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