A babysitter's explicit alleged text messages about using a seatbelt to restrain a child has led to charges of sexual abuse against young children for the woman and her boyfriend.
Ashley Dack, 29, was charged with sexual performance by a child and super aggravated
sexual assault of a child, KPRC-TV reported. Her boyfriend, Patrick Schuneman, also was charged.
The text messages were uncovered after Dack bragged about her alleged crimes to a friend, the station reported. The friend backed up the texts when Dack asked him to charge her phone, and he turned the evidence over to police.
KPRC-TV detailed one text exchange as follows:
Dack: Oh honey? I never know. There is a little girl at lunch with blonde pig tails, kept dancing around on the floor. Wanted you 2 be hiding in my car and I could bring her 2 you. Maybe 4 [years of age].
Schuneman: Would love that. Would you join us or leave us alone?
Dack: Join you. We could use the seat belt to hold her down and wrap around her neck so she couldn’t wiggle because it would get tighter and tighter.
Schuneman: She’d be so scared.
Dack: But no one could hear her if we were in my car.
Schuneman: I would hold her neck and head as you pulled her pants off.
"The defendant and co-defendant shared text messages over time that suggest something more sadistic than your typical sexual abuse,"
Prosecutor Stephen Driver said, according to KPRC-TV.
Among the texts the couple allegedly shared are images of children engaging in sexual activity, with one of the images showing Dack inappropriately touching an 11-month-old, the station reported.
Dack and Schuneman, 37, are
geologists for oil companies, The Huffington Post reported.
"I would never see her as doing that,” a friend of Dack’s from college told The Huffington Post. “She seemed perfectly normal. I mean, when people had kids, wanted a night out or whatever, she'd be the person to volunteer to take care of them. She'd make friends with professors and family, and it wasn't uncommon for her to watch peoples' kids as a favor. And nobody would think twice."
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