An Indiana mother, aged 32 and mother of seven, was taken into custody last week, accused of attempting to sell her 7-month-old daughter for sexual purposes to a man for $400.
The FBI began investigating Morgan D. Stapp last November after receiving a report from Snapchat regarding the attempted sex trafficking, according to a WTTV report.
“U can f**k her for 400$,” read one such message. “Half now rest after. I’ll send my address. I do live alone, and her dad is not in the picture.”
The messages, from user “morgan stapp,” included three photos of her infant daugther.
The Indianapolis mother now confronts a felony charge of sex trafficking following claims that she sought $400 in return for allowing her infant daughter to be victimized by a man.
Agents interviewed Stapp on November 11, 2024, when she told them her Snapchat account had been recently “hacked” and she no longer had access to it. She also told them she’d gotten an email sayin that her account had been permanently banned because of “online commercial sex transactions.” She also said she was upset to lose photos of her seven children she’d saved to the account.
But during an interview later in November with the state Department of Child Services, Stapp admitted that she lied to the FBI about losing access to her Snapchat account.
“I wanted the FBI to leave,” she reportedly said.
The FBI contacted Indianapolis Police in December seeking help with the investigation, and officer obtained a search warrant for the Snapchat account, where they found selfies Stapp saved to the account after the FBI interview. They also found that she snet more than 7,000 messages over three days that month, including 81 messages asking if there was interest “in buy my nudes so I can get baby diapers.”
According to police, the IP address associated with the account sent all the messages near Stapp’s home address.
Documents charging stapp with attempted child sex trafficking were filed in Marion Superior Court on July 1, and the court issued a warrant for her arrest. She was arrested Tuesday and booked into the Marion County Jail with a $200,000 bond. She has an initial court hearing set Friday morning.
