Woman Gets Prison for Sex with Girl, 7 - Updated

(Kissimmee, Florida) Last week, 26-year-old Margaret Ann O'Neill was sentenced to 25 years in prison resulting from her no contest plea to charges of lewd or lascivious molestation of a child under 12.

O'Neill will also be classified as a sexual predator for the rest of her life.

The 26-year-old also must testify against her boyfriend. If she fails to do so, O'Neill's sentence could be overturned and she could face life in prison, Circuit Judge Bob LeBlanc warned on Thursday.

O'Neill admitted to sheriff's investigators that she had sex with the child three times in 2010, a sheriff's report said.

She told detectives her lover, Christopher P. Smith, 32, promised to leave his wife and led O'Neill to believe she could prove her love for him by giving herself to his "sexual appetites."

Smith was arrested Dec. 5, after another woman told authorities Smith had asked her to have sex with the child. Investigators say Smith had videos on his phone of himself and O'Neill having sex with the young girl.

Boyfriend Smith is scheduled for trial in September.

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Florida Woman Accused of Sex with Girl, 7
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(Kissimmee, Florida) A 26-year-old local woman, Margaret Ann O'Neill, has been arrested for allegedly performing oral sex on a seven-year-old girl to satisfy the sexual desires of her married boyfriend, 32-year-old Christopher Smith.

O'Neill faces charges of sexual battery on a child younger than 12 and criminal conspiracy to commit sexual battery. Smith faces charges of sexual battery on a child younger than 12, lewd or lascivious molestation and conspiracy to commit sexual battery.

O'Neill was arrested Wednesday after police say they found a video of her performing oral sex on a child on Smith's cell phone, the affidavit says.

When O'Neill was questioned, she told police that she performed the acts so that Smith would leave his wife and be with her. O'Neill said that Smith was a "manipulator" and that she was "afraid of what he would do if she did not participate in the sexual activity," according to the affidavit.

Smith's wife also admitted to police that she found a video of him sodomizing a child in February but did not report it because she wanted to protect the family, according to police.

O'Neill and Smith were booked into custody at the Orange County Jail without bond.

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