A 34-year-old Hoquiam woman was arrested June 25 after a cyber investigation revealed sexually explicit images of her with a young child, according to a statement from U.S. Attorney Brian T. Moran.

Tamara Stanley made her first appearance in U.S. District Court in Tacoma Friday, charged with production of child pornography, and remains detained in the Federal Detention Center at SeaTac.

”According to the criminal complaint, investigators obtained a judicially authorized search warrant for Stanley’s email account,” read the statement. “A review of the account revealed sexually explicit images Stanley had created of a young child.”

According to court documents, the investigation started in March when the Airway Heights Police Department received a report that a male Indian national living in India and Stanley “had sexually exploited a teenage girl.” The photos from that search of Stanley’s email account included photos of a pre-teen child taken by Stanley.

Federal investigators teamed with local law enforcement to serve a warrant on Stanley’s residence June 25. According to the court document, officers had to break in the door of Stanley’s Hoquiam apartment when she did not answer. She was on her phone and told agents she was speaking to the Indian national about the warrant.

According to court documents, Stanley agreed to speak with investigators and said she was “in a master-slave sexual relationship” with the Indian national, and that she “has sexually exploited multiple minors and recorded that abuse for him.”

The court report indicates there were five minors subjected to the abuse, which was livestreamed or recorded by video or photographs that were messaged or emailed to the Indian national.

Production of child pornography is punishable by a mandatory minimum 15 years in prison and up to 30 years in prison.

The case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide Department of Justice initiative launched in May 2006 to combat child sexual exploitation and abuse. Led by United States Attorneys’ Offices and the Criminal Division’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state, and local resources to better locate, apprehend, and prosecute individuals who exploit children via the Internet, as well as to identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, visit www.justice.gov/psc.

The case is being investigated by the FBI with assistance from the Airway Heights and Hoquiam Police Departments. The case is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Matthew Hampton.