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An Indianapolis mother is facing child sex trafficking charges for allegedly telling a stranger online that he could sexually assault her 7-month-old daughter for $400, multiple outlets reported, citing a probable cause affidavit.
Morgan Stapp, 32, was arrested on July 8 and charged with attempt to commit child sex trafficking, Indiana court and Marion County inmate records reviewed by USA TODAY show. She was released from jail after posting a $100,000 bond, according to court records.
USA TODAY contacted the Marion County Sheriff’s Office and the Indianapolis Metro Police on Saturday, July 19, but has not received a response from either agency.
Why did authorities begin investigating Morgan Stapp?
Stapp’s arrest comes after an FBI investigation that began in November 2024 once Snapchat reported attempted sex trafficking on their app, a probable cause affidavit obtained by CBS 4 and People says. The mother of seven children, whose username was “morgan-stapp” on Snapchat, is accused of sending another user on the app three photos of her 7-month-old daughter, the court document reads, per the outlets.
“U can (expletive) her for 400$,” one message read. “Half now rest after. I’ll send my address. I do live alone, and her dad is not in the picture.”
FBI agents spoke with Stapp on Nov. 11, 2024, and asked her about the messages, at which the mother told them that her Snapchat had recently been “hacked” and that she no longer had access to her “morgan-stapp” account, according to the affidavit.
Stapp also told the agents that she’d recently received an email saying her Snapchat account was permanently banned due to “online commercial sex transactions,” the court document continued, per the outlets. The mother expressed concern over losing photos of her kids that she had saved to her now-banned Snapchat account, according to the affidavit.
When interviewed again later that month by the Indiana Department of Child Services, Stapp admitted to lying to FBI agents about being hacked out of her Snapchat account, the outlets reported, citing the affidavit.
“I wanted the FBI to leave,” she said, per the court document.
Search warrant connects Snapchat messages to Stapp, affidavit says
The FBI contacted Indianapolis Metro police officers in December to help with their investigation. When a police detective got a search warrant for Stapp’s account, he found selfies of her saved to Snapchat days after her FBI interview, which is when she claimed to have been hacked, according to the affidavit.
Upon further investigation, detectives also discovered that Stapp’s account sent over 7,000 messages on Snapchat during three days in November. Included in the messages was Snapp asking 81 times if other users would be “interested in buying my nudes so I can get baby diapers?”
According to the affidavit, police said that IP address records from the “morgan-stapp” account indicated that all the Snapchat messages had been sent from an area near her home address in Indianapolis.
Stapp’s next court hearing is scheduled for Sept. 15, Indiana state records show. On Saturday, July 19, USA TODAY contacted the Indiana Public Defender’s office, which is representing Stapp after she successfully filed for indigent status, but has not received a response.
