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SAN ANTONIO — A San Antonio couple is accused of trying to trade sex with the woman's 5-year-old daughter for an apartment, a used car and child care for her 10-month old daughter.

Jennifer Richards, 25, and her married boyfriend, Sean Michael Block, 40, appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Nancy Stein Nowak on Friday. Richards is charged with using interstate facilities to transmit information about a minor. Block is charged with distributing child pornography.

Nowak ordered Block held. Richards' detention hearing was delayed until Tuesday, the San Antonio Express-News reported Sunday.

According to an affidavit unsealed last Tuesday, the investigation began when an informant told the FBI about a text message allegedly sent by Block reading: "Nice piece 5 yrs old belongs to my gf and she wants to sell it."

Richards and Block crafted a deal that, in addition to the apartment and used car, included child care for Richards' 10-month-old daughter, whose sexual service the couple intended to sell later, Rex Miller, the FBI's lead agent on the case, testified.

The couple had also hoped to blackmail the informant, Miller said.

Richards "was of the belief that these sexual interactions would be a positive experience for (her daughter) and that Richards would receive sexual gratification" from watching, according to the affidavit.

Authorities said both children are no longer in Richards' custody and that neither child was sold for sex.

After reviewing computers the couple used and listening to taped conversations, Miller determined Block and Richards were making further plans to abduct, rape and "carve up" a teenage runaway.

Block allegedly sent an e-mail with a link to a Russian child pornography site, according to the affidavit.

Ronald Guyer, Block's lawyer, acknowledged the severity of the charges. But Guyer told the judge that there was no evidence that the behavior progressed beyond Block's fantasy.

"There has been no action on his part," Guyer told Nowak.

Richard's attorney did not immediately return a call or e-mail left Sunday by The Associated Press seeking comment.

The couple worked at the Cheesecake Factory at North Star Mall, where he was a bartender and she was a waitress.

Court records show that Block's now-estranged wife Sarah Block filed for a protective order earlier this week on behalf of the couple's 14-month-old child. Her lawyer said she filed for divorce Friday.




I feel so sad for these children to have such monster's of parents.

OMG that made me sick to my stomach to read. These people are despicable

OMG!

Those people are sick. It breaks my heart to hear that someone would do this to their child.

With all the "survey" sites we mothers/fathers belong to. I think there should be a survey on how to punish these monsters. I am more then willing to help with the punishment.

With all the "survey" sites we mothers/fathers belong to. I think there should be a survey on how to punish these monsters. I am more then willing to help with the punishment.

It is so scary to think that people like this live among us. I can't even imagine how one person could be so sick, but how on earth do two vial excuses for human beings manage to find one another? Regardless of whether or not anything actually happened with these poor kids, there isn't a punishment suitable for these two! I makes me sick to my stomach!

It makes me wonder why there aren't strict rules about who has kids with people like that

OMG! How horrible! It is sooo sad that people like this are running around in our society. I fell awful for these children! OMG!

ewww so glad those babies got taken away.

sick sick sick sick lock them up and take that baby.. poor little ones makes me so sad

It's very fortunate that whoever the informant was that these two monsters sent the text messages to wasn't the type to take them up on it. They picked the wrong person, and sadly there are plenty of people who would have taken them up on it.

As for the attorney saying nothing had progressed beyond the 'fantasy stage' I beg to differ, actively soliciting for someone to rape the child was ACTION, not fantasy. They'd not only "fantasized" about these things, they'd determined how they wanted to benefit financially.

My wish is for mandatory sterilization for such people. Hopefully the children already born will never see either of them again, but no way in h*ll should they be allowed a "second chance" at parenting after this.

The wife filed for divorce and a protective order instead of blindly "standing by her man" and that's reassuring that their child won't be exposed to such sick perversion anymore either.

I've seen too much, nothing shocks me, not even this. Sickens me, sure. And to reply to a PP, scum attracts scum, that's how they found each other. I wish they were the only two people on the planet to be so depraved, but there are more people like this than most people realize.