SAN ANTONIO, Texas (AP) -- A San Antonio couple is accused of trying to trade sex with the woman's 5-year-old daughter for an apartment, a used car and child care for her 10-month old daughter.

Jennifer Richards, 25, and her married boyfriend, Sean Michael Block, 40, appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Nancy Stein Nowak on Friday. Richards is charged with using interstate facilities to transmit information about a minor. Block is charged with distributing child pornography.

Nowak ordered Block held. Richards' detention hearing was delayed until Tuesday, the San Antonio Express-News reported Sunday.

According to an affidavit, the investigation began when an informant told the FBI about a text message allegedly sent by Block reading: "Nice piece 5 yrs old belongs to my gf and she wants to sell it."

Richards and Block crafted a deal that, in addition to the apartment and used car, included child care for Richards' 10-month-old daughter, whose sexual service the couple intended to sell later, Rex Miller, the FBI's lead agent on the case, testified.

The couple had also hoped to blackmail the informant, Miller said.

Richards "was of the belief that these sexual interactions would be a positive experience for [her daughter] and that Richards would receive sexual gratification" from watching, according to the affidavit.

Authorities said both children are no longer in Richards' custody and that neither child was sold for sex.

After reviewing computers the couple used and listening to taped conversations, Miller determined Block and Richards were making further plans to abduct, rape and "carve up" a teenage runaway.

Block allegedly sent an e-mail with a link to a Russian child pornography site, according to the affidavit.

Ronald Guyer, Block's lawyer, acknowledged the severity of the charges. But Guyer told the judge that there was no evidence that the behavior progressed beyond Block's fantasy.

"There has been no action on his part," Guyer told Nowak.

Richards' attorney did not return a call or e-mail left Sunday.


The couple worked at the Cheesecake Factory at North Star Mall, where he was a bartender and she was a waitress.

Court records show that Block's now-estranged wife, Sarah Block, filed for a protective order earlier this week on behalf of the couple's 14-month-old child. Her lawyer said she filed for divorce Friday


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8/26/2008 8:53:40 AM

8/26/2008 9:13:53 AM

this story is 2 days [old]

8/26/2008 9:15:17 AM

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"plans to abduct, rape and "carve up" a teenage runaway."

8/26/2008 9:18:24 AM

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"this story is 2 days [old]"

concur

8/26/2008 9:18:44 AM

8/26/2008 10:34:26 AM

WHAT.
THE.
FUCK.

whether it makes me a nazi or not, i still use crap like this in my argument in favor of selective breeding

8/26/2008 10:37:15 AM

North Carolina used to have a pretty aggressive sterilization program. IIRC there is some written documentation of Hitler thanking NC for its research.

And yes, destroy their genetic material.

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" The records...show that while other states were shutting down their programs after the revelations of Hitler’s crimes in World War II, North Carolina expanded its program to include the general population. Almost two-thirds of the 7,600 North Carolina citizens sterilized had never been institutionalized, and 2,000 were under 19. And: North Carolina's eugenics law, passed in 1929 and rewritten in 1933, allowed sterilizations for three reasons — epilepsy, sickness and feeblemindedness. But the board almost routinely violated the spirit, if not the letter, of the law by passing judgment on many other things, from promiscuity to homosexuality."

[Edited on August 26, 2008 at 10:43 AM. Reason : state info]

8/26/2008 10:38:27 AM

now estranged?

thats silly.

8/26/2008 11:16:17 AM

epilepsy - what? why?

sickness - any particular kind or just a cold or what? that's weird

feeblemindedness - what exactly is this?

8/26/2008 11:18:45 AM

sounds like nc got it right back in the day

8/26/2008 11:24:17 AM

Main Entry:
fee·ble·mind·ed Listen to the pronunciation of feebleminded
Pronunciation:
\?fe-b?l-'min-d?d\
Function:
adjective
Date:
1534

1obsolete : irresolute, vacillating2: mentally deficient3: foolish, stupid
— fee·ble·mind·ed·ly adverb
— fee·ble·mind·ed·ness noun

8/26/2008 11:25:10 AM

^^^ ask FeebleMinded

[Edited on August 26, 2008 at 11:25 AM. Reason : ^]

8/26/2008 11:25:16 AM

I'm all for eugenics, but why would they need to sterilize homosexuals?

8/26/2008 11:26:19 AM

Its the principle!

[Edited on August 26, 2008 at 11:27 AM. Reason : ha]

8/26/2008 11:26:40 AM

^^ Because I think up until the 1970's or so, homosexuality was considered a pretty serious mental illness.

8/26/2008 11:34:03 AM

It used to be in the DSM until very recently.

8/26/2008 11:36:49 AM

Yes. However, homosexuals are not going to reproduce. Unless they do it wrong, I guess.

8/26/2008 11:37:33 AM

8/26/2008 11:43:12 AM

i wonder how often shit like this isn't caught.

8/26/2008 12:07:48 PM

i know

8/26/2008 12:10:48 PM

for a used car and an apartment? seriously? these people could have gotten way more for that

8/26/2008 5:39:55 PM

white people:

8/26/2008 6:05:24 PM

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"her married boyfriend"

8/27/2008 3:58:47 PM

people can be so fucked up

8/27/2008 7:38:48 PM