Utah Mother Allegedly Doctored Photo to Show Girl, 13, Having Sex with Dog

Danette Stark's motives a mystery, lawyers plan First Amendment defense

ByABC News
June 29, 2010, 4:58 PM

June 30, 2010— -- A Utah woman is facing a battery of child pornography-related charges after she allegedly created a flyer depicting a 13-year-old girl engaged in bestiality and distributed photocopies of the picture around the girl's middle school.

Danette Stark, 37, a mother whose daughter attends the same Salt Lake City middle school, is accused of digitally superimposing the girl's face on a explicit image she found on the Internet depicting a naked adult woman having sex with a dog.

One of the flyers was discovered in late May by a custodian in a girl's bathroom at Northwest Middle School.

Salt Lake District Attorney Lohra Miller called the production and distribution of the flyer "heinous," but would not offer a motive for Stark's alleged crime.

"The motive is irrelevant," Miller said at a recent press conference. "In this case the heinous and despicable acts speak for themselves.

"The brochure is so heinous. You have enough to deal with as a 13-year-old girl, much less this type of conduct," she said.

Stark was booked into a Salt Lake County jail last week. Calls to her home and cell phone were not answered.

"There is a lot that Danette would like to say, but cases involving juveniles must be handled with the utmost delicacy, so for now, I have advised her not to make any comments," her lawyer, Greg Smith, told ABCNews.com.

According to the criminal complaint, the "flyer shows a completely naked female who is on her hands and knees, with her breasts hanging toward the ground, and who was engaged in an act of bestiality with a dog."

"The face of the female appeared to be 'photo shopped' and a picture of a female student was on the naked female's body," the complaint said.

"There were writings on the bottom of the flyer that read: 'Bitch,' 'C.T. really does like having sex with dogs,' 'Slut' and 'Whore,'" according to the complaint.

The school's principal has discovered 18 copies of the flyer, the complaint said.

The alleged victim, whose name has been withheld, is identified in court documents by the initials C.T.