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Article about the Canadian woman cooperating with MacMahon, who abused her daughter. She also abused her son.

Police have laid a half-dozen more charges against a Bedford mother accused of committing sex crimes against her children.

The woman’s name cannot be used because of a court-ordered publication ban on any information that would identify the alleged victims. She was arrested in March on nine charges, including sexually abusing one of her daughters and uploading videos of the abuse to the internet. She was also charged with surreptitiously observing her children in circumstances where they would be nude and had a reasonable expectation of privacy.

In a new, 15-count information sworn last month, police allege the 39-year-old woman also sexually abused one of her sons and surreptitiously observed another child.

She now faces two counts each of sexual assault, sexual interference, sexual exploitation and voyeurism, four counts of communicating with someone over the internet for the purpose of committing a crime against a child, and single counts of making, distributing and possessing child pornography.

The woman appeared in Halifax provincial court Wednesday by video link from the Central Nova Scotia Correctional Facility in Dartmouth.

Defence lawyer Brad Sarson told the court his client did not want to continue with a bail hearing that got underway in March.

“She does not wish to pursue her release,” Sarson said.

Judge Elizabeth Buckle said she was satisfied that the Crown had shown cause why the woman should not be released, and ordered her to remain in custody.

The evidence from the bail hearing is bannedfrom publication to protect the woman’s right to a fair trial.

https://www.trurodaily.com/news/bedford-woman-accused-of-abusing-her-children-making-child-pornography-223860/