Ugly Child Sex Abuse Case - Updated

(Seattle, Washington) The horrible case of a Seattle-area man and wife sexually abusing a four-year-old girl has finally reached a conclusion.

A Burien woman who filmed herself and her husband raping a 4-year-old girl and sent videos of the sexual abuse over the Internet has been sentenced to 26 years to life in prison.

Hollie Beston pleaded guilty in December to first-degree child rape, first-degree child molestation, sexual exploitation of a minor and dealing in child pornography. Her estranged husband, Brian Beston, of Kent, pleaded guilty to the same charges and was sentenced last June to a minimum of 26 years up to life in prison.

 
Hollie Beston, Brian Beston
Once the Bestons complete their terms of incarceration, they will continue confinement until state authorities decide whether they should be released.

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Ugly Child Sex Abuse Case
[Previous 10/30/09 post]
(Seattle, Washington) A man and his ex have been arrested for sexually abusing a 4-year-old girl and providing live streaming video of the abuse on the Internet.

Brian K. Beston, 36, and Hollie Beston, 31, (names also reported as Benson), have been charged with multiple child sex crimes.

Reportedly, the Bestons abused the girl between June and October 2009 during which time they also involved a San Diego man they met via Craigslist who was posing as a single mom under the handle "jennymomsd."

The couple began exchanging child porn with jennymomsd and soon the Internet contact "was accepted as a fellow child lover," the court documents said. Jennymomsd then requested pornographic images of children and began receiving pictures of a young girl, according to detectives.

Jennymomsd claimed to have a brother interested in having sex with children, prosecutors said, and the conversations eventually turned to talks of this brother visiting Seattle to have sex with the young girl featured in the photographs sent by the Bestons.

But Jennymomsd remained skeptical of the authenticity of the Bestons' photos; he thought the images may have been pulled from the Internet, he told investigators. When he expressed his skepticism to Brian Benson, the Kent man offered to present the girl via a live video feed, the statement said.

Brian Beston, using the camera on his computer, provided Jennymomsd with a live feed featuring himself sexually molesting the pictured girl for approximately five minutes, detectives said, even briefly holding up a sheet of paper with the day's date written on it to prove the authenticity of the feed.

Jennymomsd later confirmed to federal agents that the girl featured in the feed was the same girl who had appeared in the 40 to 50 pornographic images the Bestons had sent him throughout the course of their correspondence.

Brian and Hollie Beston face charges of first-degree child rape, first-degree child molestation, exploitation of a minor and dealing in depictions of a minor engaged in sexually-explicit conduct. They were booked into custody at the King County Jail with bond for each set at $500,000.

Sick stuff, eh?