Natisha Hillard, 25, pleaded guilty in U.S. District
Court in Hammond to one count of selling a child
for sex and two counts of allowing a child to take
part in child pornography, the Post-Tribune is
reporting.
Hillard admitted under questioning by her attorney,
Visvaldis Kupsis, that she met Christopher M. Bour
through a dating service in 2011 and that they
agreed to meet at her place. That was when Bour
started asking her about two children she had
access to, both girls, who were 4 months and 3
years old at the time.
The crimes lasted from September 2011 until
February 2013, when an acquaintance of Bour
alerted the FBI that he had been asking her to
take part.
She agreed with statements by Assistant U.S.
Attorney Jill Koster that she can be seen on
images found on Bour’s computer showing him
sexually touching the child with Hillard in the
background.
She also let Bour take sexual pictures of the older
child at least once, Koster said.
Koster said that Hillard told law enforcement after
she was arrested that she agreed to sell the
children to Bour because she needed money and
that Bour paid her extra for the last encounter to
be alone with child.
Hillard said she didn’t know if Bour then shared
those images with other people.
“He didn’t tell me what he was going to do with
them,” she said.
Hillard, who is being held without bond, faces a
mandatory minimum sentence of 30 years to life in
prison on the count of selling a child.
Bour, also being held without bond, has pleaded
not guilty in the case.
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