A judge in Loudoun County sentenced a 44-year-old Sterling mother to one year in prison after an investigation revealed that she had her two young children take nude photos of her for online prostitution ads.
Nataliya Davis was charged with two counts of child neglect, authorities said, after an investigation that started last year revealed there was possible prostitution activity at her home.
While she was in jail, Davis made numerous phone calls in which “she confirmed that she had directed her two children to take nude photographs of her for online advertisements for prostitution,” prosecutors said.
The investigation of her began in early February 2014, when Loudoun County sheriff’s deputies responded to Davis’s home in Sterling, on two separate occasions, in response to complaints of loud noise, disorderly conduct, and assaultive behavior.
Sheriff’s deputies again went to the home later that month to conduct a welfare check on two children living there. When authorities arrived, one of the children was sitting on the lap of a man who was not a relative. Officials said the house temperature was 51 degrees, and there were roaches and bugs in several rooms at the home.
Authorities said they contacted Child Protective Services (CPS).
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Other welfare check visits to the home by sheriff’s deputies found it in similar conditions.
During a June visit, a tenant in Davis’s home told authorities that he had observed several men coming in and out of the home to meet with Davis for brief periods of time, prosecutors said. The tenant also said the children were often left unattended during these times.
Officials conducted an investigation of possible prostitution activity. Davis’s ads showed various photos of her and her home address in Sterling, officials said. Surveillance showed Davis in “various stages of undress escorting men in and out of her home,” prosecutors at the Loudoun County Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Office said in a news release.
After authorities searched her home, they found numerous photos and videos of Davis nude or partially nude. In some of the photos, Davis’s two children — ages 8 and 9 — could be seen in the background, prosecutors said.
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Davis was arrested and put in jail. While incarcerated, Davis made phone calls where she discussed how she had directed her two children to take nude photographs of her for online prostitution ads, prosecutors said.
On Wednesday, Judge Thomas D. Horne of the Circuit Court of Loudoun County sentenced Davis to one year on each count of child neglect. The jail time is to be served concurrently.
Davis could have contact with her children only as permitted by the Department of Family Services, according to the judge.
Davis was also charged and convicted last year of prostitution. She pleaded not guilty but was found guilty. A judge in that case imposed a $500 fine and 179 days in jail. All the jail time was suspended, according to prosecutors.
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