When first confronted by federal brokers on November 11, 2024, Morgan D. Stapp, 32, allegedly instructed them that her Snapchat account had lately been “hacked” and he or she now not had entry to it, in line with courtroom paperwork seen by CBS affiliate WTTV and Fox affiliate WXIN. She additionally mentioned she was upset on the lack of pictures of her seven kids.

The girl then purportedly instructed them she’d obtained an e-mail from the social media platform that her account had been completely banned for suspected “on-line business intercourse transactions.”

Later within the month, in line with the outlet, she allegedly admitted to the Indiana Division of Little one Providers that she had lied to the federal agent about shedding her Snapchat account as a result of, “I wished the FBI to depart.”

After that unproductive preliminary interview with Stapp, the FBI reached out to the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Division in December for help within the case.

An IMPD detective was capable of purchase a search warrant to analyze Stapp’s Snapchat account and subsequently discovered selfies of her that had been saved to the account after her FBI interview. That recommended that she nonetheless had entry to and management of the account.

Additional digging discovered that the account had despatched over 7,000 messages over a three-day span in November, shortly earlier than Snapchat reached out to the FBI and the federal government company launched its investigation.

One message was repeated 81 instances in that barrage: “Would you be all in favour of shopping for my nudes so I can get child diapers?” Stapp’s account additionally reportedly added 400 different accounts throughout this similar three-day span.

Based on WTTV, the investigation confirmed that the entire messages had been despatched from an space close to Stapp’s residence, and all of them had been despatched after she’d claimed she misplaced entry to her Snapchat account.

The particular message that triggered Snapchat to alert the feds reportedly included three pictures of Stapp’s toddler daughter.

Together with them was the message, “U can f–k her for $400. Half now relaxation after. I am going to ship my handle. I do reside alone, and her dad is just not within the image.”

On Tuesday, Stapp was arrested and is now going through a stage 2 felony cost of tried little one intercourse trafficking. She was booked into the Marion County Jail and is being held on a $200,000 bond. An preliminary listening to is about for Friday, July 11.