Mother Sexually Abused 3-Year-Old Daughter, Sent Assault Videos To People She Met Online

A Washington mother has been sentenced to jail for sexually abusing her toddler daughter and sending videos of the assault to at least 10 people she met online.

The 31-year-old Spokane woman, identified as Jessica Barrington, was sentenced to 20 years in prison after she admitted to sexually assaulting her 3-year-old girl and filming the abuse, the Department of Justice said in a news release Thursday.

Barrington discussed plans for raping, torturing and impregnating her minor children, all under the age of seven, with the men she met online. She also invited a man from California to her home and offered him a chance to rape the children.

"I will live every day with the knowledge that I caused your pain," Jessica said Wednesday in court addressing her child, KXLY reported.

Barrington's attorney, Rubin, informed the court that as a child, Barrington witnessed her father bludgeon her mother to death. Barrington said she suffered trauma as she was never encouraged to talk about her mother's death in her adopted home.

Rubin had requested the court to give the mother a chance to reform herself, arguing that her client suffered from anxiety, depression and post-traumatic stress disorder as per psychological evaluation at the prison.

Based on her guilty plea in April, wherein she pledged to improve herself, U.S. Senior District Court Judge Rosanna Malouf Peterson sentenced Barrington to 20 years in prison, although the prosecutors asked for 28 years.

During the sentencing, Assistant U.S. Attorney Dave Herzog said the "community should know, if you assault your child, the consequences are severe."

A man in Singapore was sentenced to jail in May for repeatedly raping his teen daughter for over six years and forcing his teen son to rape the boy's mother twice. The unidentified man began abusing his daughter in 2013 and was eventually caught in 2019 when the victim shared the ordeal with her aunt, who reported it to the cops.