ELDRED TWP., Pa. (EYT) – A Brookville woman who is currently in Jefferson County Jail stemming from a 2016 child rape case is facing additional charges following the discovery of disturbing photographs and video footage that she produced.
According to court documents, on August 23, 2018, the PSP Bureau of Criminal Investigation filed the following criminal charges against 30-year-old Christine Lorraine Nichols of Brookville:
- Unlawful Contact With Minor – Sexual Offenses, Felony 1
- Sexual Assault, Felony 2
- Incest of Minor – Complainant Under 13 Years, Felony 2
- Sexual Intercourse With Animal, Misdemeanor 2 (two counts)
Nichols was arraigned at 10:05 a.m. on Friday, August 24, in Magisterial District Judge Gregory M Bazylak’s office.
Bail was set at $80,000.00 for this case.
She remains lodged in the Jefferson County Jail.
A preliminary hearing is scheduled for 10:30 a.m. on Tuesday, September 4, with Judge Bazylak presiding.
According to a criminal complaint, on June 2, 2017, Corporal Novak of the PSP Northwest Computer Crime Task Force, was contacted by an Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) analyst regarding an investigation being conducted by the Webster Police Department in Webster, Texas.
The analyst related that investigators had been conducting a sexual abuse of children investigation in which they discovered information indicating that a female in Brookville, Pa., had produced and transmitted a child pornography video to a known Texas man. The analyst then forwarded Corporal Novak the case information provided by Detective Nettles, of the Webster Police Department.
According to the information, through the review of information, images, and video from a related case, Detective Nettles identified Christine Lorraine Nichols of Brookville, as the user of a known Gmail account used in the discussion of sexual contact with a child, in which she admitted to having sexual contact with a child.
The complaint states that Detective Nettles also reviewed images, including nude and non-nude images of an adult white female, some of which depicted the woman with a white male child. Additionally, one of the images depicted a close-up image of the woman in which it could be seen that she had her tongue pierced twice.
Detective Nettles then compared the images with a child pornography video that was received from the initial cyber tip report.
According to the complaint, the woman in the child pornography video also had her tongue pierced twice, and after reviewing all of the images, Detective Nettles concluded the woman in the video and the woman in the images were the same person.
The detective then used publicly available resources and found a Facebook profile associated with the woman, which led him to conclude the woman was related to the alias “Christine Brodd.” He was then able to identify the woman as Christine Nichols, according to the complaint.
Nichols was taken into custody by members of PSP around 9:00 p.m. on June 3, 2017.
According to the complaint, Nichols admitted to having been in contact, for several years, with a known man who was the subject of the original investigation in Texas and identified her Facebook account and Gmail account as the accounts previously identified in the investigation.
In addition, Nichols admitted that she was aware the known man had been sexually assaulting his children and that he had sent her multiple sexually explicit videos involving the sexual assault of his children, the complaint states.
Nichols also admitted that she sent back to the known man sexually explicit images and videos that she produced involving a minor. She also admitted to performing sexual acts with her dog and indicated investigators would most likely discover videos depicting such acts, the complaint indicates.
Forensic analysis of a Samsung Galaxy J1 cell phone belonging to Nichols resulted in the recovery of two videos which depict Nichols participating in sexual acts with a dog. Additionally, Facebook records associated with her account resulted in the recovery of six videos depicting Nichols performing sexual acts with a dog, according to the complaint.
EDITOR’S NOTE 1: Extreme graphic details were not included due to the sexual nature of the alleged crimes.
EDITOR’S NOTE 2: Several details were removed from this article to help protect the identity of the victim.
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