Former transgender Democrat state lawmaker charged with sexual exploitation of children
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A former transgender Democratic state lawmaker has been charged by a federal court with sexual exploitation of children alongside a former "intimate partner."
The release stated Laughton has been charged alongside former "intimate partner" Lindsay Groves, a daycare worker in Tyngsborough, Massachusetts, who a preliminary forensic review showed had more than 10,000 text messages between the two "that included discussion about, and transfer of, explicit photographs that Groves had taken of children while employed at Creative Minds daycare." Brandon Gillespie is an associate editor at Fox News. Follow him on Twitter at @brandon_cg.
Those messages included sexually explicit images of children who appeared to be approximately three to five years old, and "explicit descriptions" of sexual contact with each other, as well as children, the release said.