A San Diego babysitter broke down in tears in court as she was sentenced to 100 years to life in prison for delivering little girls to her pedophile boyfriend to molest.
Brittney Mae Lyon, 31, advertised her babysitting services online – with a particular interest in working with special needs children – and earned the trust of parents who left their kids in her care.
But, in reality, she was sexually abusing the little girls and providing them to her boyfriend Samuel Cabrera, 31, who would film himself molesting them.
The victims were aged between three and seven years old and some were autistic and non-verbal.
Lyon pleaded guilty to two counts of a lewd act upon a child and two counts of a forcible lewd act upon a child in May.
She also admitted additional allegations of kidnapping, residential burglary and sexually assaulting multiple victims.
The sick abuse came to light in 2016 when a seven-year-old girl told her mother she didn’t want to go anywhere with Lyon – a long-term friend of the family who also babysat her – anymore.
The little girl then told her mom about the abuse who went to the police, according to the San Diego Union-Tribune.
An investigation led Carlsbad police to Cabrera, then 22, and both he and Lyon were arrested.
A search of Cabrera’s car uncovered a double-locked box containing six computer hard drives with hundreds of videos of him abusing victims.
Some of the victims in the videos were drugged and the clips were often filmed with multiple cameras to capture different angles, prosecutors said.
The horrifying tapes featured multiple unknown victims, prompting an investigation to track down other families who had hired Lyon as a babysitter.
Parents of three of the victims had met Lyon through a babysitting website where she had ‘touted her interest in working with special needs children,’ according to the San Diego County District Attorney’s Office.
One mother saw a news story about Lyon and Cabrera’s awful crimes and reached out to police, only to learn that her own three-year-old was among the victims filmed being abused by the twisted couple.
Another victim was a developmentally-delayed seven-year-old with autism, who could not dress or bathe herself or speak.
Lyon and Cabrera met in high school and he initially convinced her to secretly record women getting changed in dressing rooms and gym locker rooms, prosecutors said.
Then, the pedophile asked Lyon to bring children in her care to his home – where she participated in some of the abuse, according to prosecutors.
Cabrera went on trial in 2019 charged with 35 felonies, including multiple counts involving child molestation, kidnapping, burglary and conspiracy.
It took a North County jury just two hours to convict him on all charges.
He was sentenced to eight terms of life in prison without the possibility of parole and 300 additional years.
Lyon’s case was stalled by Covid courtroom closures and by changes of attorneys.
She has been represented by three different defense attorneys over the past nine years: a public defender, then private counsel and then another public defender.
At her sentencing inside the Vista Courthouse in San Diego Thursday, the babysitter’s defense attorney read a statement on her behalf.
‘For nine years, I’ve thought about what I would say today. I’ve come to the conclusion that there are no words that would make any of the harm and trauma I’ve caused any better,’ the statement read.
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