US couple molested children they were baby-sitting
They videotaped sex acts with kids as young as 2 months old
March 17, 2009
A COUPLE who ran a baby-sitting service out of their home videotaped themselves performing sex acts with children, some as young as 2 months old, police said Friday.
Stephen E Quick, 31, and Samantha Light, 25, both of Veedersburg in western Indiana, were being held on US$100,000 ($150,000) bond in Fountain County Jail.
Both faced preliminary charges of child molestation and child exploitation. Jail staff did not know whether either one had an attorney.
Police searched the couple's home and found a videotape depicting sex acts involving Quick and Light and at least four different children between the ages of 2 months and 6 years, said Fountain County Sheriff's Deputy Bob Kemp.
'In 15 years of doing this job, it's the worst thing I've ever seen or imagined,' he told WRTV. 'Just horrible, just horrible. It's a new low.'
'They took pictures'
Police searched the couple's home after the parents of a 3-year-old girl reported that she told them Quick and Light had touched her inappropriately and photographed her while she was at their home on 28 Feb.
'I asked her if they were just helping her in the bathroom and she said, 'No mummy, they took pictures,' said the girl's mother, who wanted to remain anonymous.
Deputies seized several computers, cameras, a video camera, pornographic materials, drugs and drug paraphernalia.
Several sex toys that appeared in the video were seized during a second search, police said.
Light and Quick was arrested on 5 Mar.
Former family members of Light said they were shocked by the accusations. They described her as intelligent and controlling.
Neither has a criminal history.
Authorities have removed the couple's daughter from their home.
The mother of the 3-year-old girl said she wants them to be put in prison for life.
'The damage they have done to these young children is going to affect them for the rest of their lives.
'And there's no taking back what has happened already,' she said.
'All they can do is make sure that it never happens again.
'It makes me want to cry reading that stuff because of those children, those poor children.
'And that little baby that had no idea what was happening to it.'
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