A Florida mother has been hit with more than 40 charges related to “grotesque” child pornography and sexual battery involving her 11-year-old daughter. The mom could face the death penalty if she is convicted of the horrific crimes.

On Monday, a 34-year-old woman from St. Petersburg was arrested by detectives and hit with 41 total charges, including 13 counts of transmission of child pornography, 13 counts of sexual performance by a child, four counts of capital sexual battery, four counts of aggravated child abuse, three counts of lewd or lascivious molestation, three counts of sexual activities involving animals, and one count of unlawful use of a two-way communication device.

‘This is nuts. I don’t know how else to describe it.’

The mother could face the death penalty if convicted of capital sexual battery of a person under 12 years of age.

The suspect was transported to the Pinellas County Jail and remains in custody without bond.

Police urged that the name of the female suspect not be released to protect the child’s identity. A 38-year-old male was also not identified because the investigation is ongoing.

Police said the man involved in the child sexual abuse material case is facing several felony charges, including child pornography and traveling to meet a minor to engage in sex.

The Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement, “Detectives began their investigation after learning that a 38-year-old male subject was involved in obtaining child pornography and meeting with young children.”

Police said detectives determined that the male obtained child porn from the female suspect.

“Detectives learned that the woman had been forcing her 11-year-old daughter to perform sexual acts on the suspect, herself, and the family dog,” police stated. “Detectives say that the suspect would record and photograph these incidents, sharing them with a 38-year-old male.”

Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri said during a press conference, “The things that the mother did to the daughter are graphic, and they are grotesque.”

“During March and April of this year, the mother created at least 14 videos of her 11-year-old daughter posing at the mother’s direction and engaging in various sex acts, including bestiality with the family dog,” Gualtieri stated.

Gualtieri noted that the mother used sex toys on her daughter.

“These acts constitute sexual battery or, as commonly referred to as rape, and because of the child’s age, the mother’s crimes are capital offenses punishable by death,” Gualtieri said.

Sheriff Gualtieri said the mother admitted to forcing her daughter to perform sex acts on video and sending the videos to the man when she was interviewed by detectives.

Gualtieri added, “These cases are the worst cases of child abuse, and in this case, it’s not just sexually abusing a child; it’s gross sexual abuse of a young girl by her mother to satisfy an adult with a perverse craving for watching kids engaged in sex acts.”

Investigators are attempting to determine whether money was exchanged for the illicit videos.

Gualtieri said investigators are looking into whether the mother sent explicit videos to others.

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The sheriff said the victim’s father and a sibling lived in the same home. He added that investigators do not believe the father was involved in the alleged child sex crimes. The victim is being taken care of by the father, but the Department of Children and Families is “very involved” in the case.

Gualtieri said there are no indications so far that the sibling was sexually exploited by the mother.

The mother made her first court appearance on Tuesday, when a judge ordered the suspect not to have any contact with her daughter.

WTVT-TV reported that the father was at the hearing, and he was “visibly upset and appeared to be praying at one point.”

Gualtieri stressed that there is a significant issue with child pornography crimes.

The sheriff noted that 84 different people have been booked into the Pinellas County Jail on child pornography charges since January, resulting in approximately 900 charges of possessing or distributing child pornography.

“Think about that: That’s 900 different videos of kids, mostly in the 5- to 12-year-old range, engaged in perverse sex acts for the pleasure of adults who seek, obtain, and watch these videos,” Gualtieri said.

“This is nuts. I don’t know how else to describe it. It’s ruining kids’ lives,” Gualtieri said of the outbreak of child porn crimes.

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Far-left New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani is getting bizarre praise from a liberal actor known for offending Christians.

Actor John Fugelsang told a CNN panel that the socialist’s policies were far closer to the teachings of Jesus Christ than those of the other candidates and then compared Mamdani to Martin Luther King Jr.

‘This guy Mamdani is not afraid to stand up to Trump. He is so charming and so popular.’

Mamdani had just participated in a heated debate with former New York Democrat Gov. Andrew Cuomo, currently running as an independent, and crime-prevention organizer Curtis Sliwa on Thursday, and the CNN panel was considering the policies proposed by the candidates.

“Mamdani says he wants to seize the means of production,” objected panelist Brad Todd.

“Mamdani is, in his policies, so much closer to the actual teachings of Jesus!” Fugelsang fired back.

“Did he say that or not? Did he say seize the means of production? He did!” Todd responded.

“Of the means of production from what? In Manhattan? Of what, falafels?” Fugelsang joked.

“They’re Democratic Socialists. It’s not the same. This is what they did to MLK as well!” he added. “This guy Mamdani is not afraid to stand up to Trump. He is so charming and so popular, record-high turnout of young people …”

“You keep telling yourself that,” Todd replied.

“In the mayoral primary! That’s the numbers — I’m not making that up!” Fugelsang said.

Video of the exchange was posted to social media.

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Mamdani was hammered by Cuomo and Sliwa during the debate for his past comments endorsing socialist policies, and Mamdani tried to appear less extreme. Many of his policies depend on dramatically increasing spending and hiking taxes.

Fugelsang has used his platform to chide Christians for years.

“The only ‘war on Christianity’ is the one waged by self-professed Christians who think Jesus hates the same people they do,” he wrote in 2015.

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President Donald Trump’s administration is ramping up the pressure on Democrats who refuse to reopen the government over two weeks into the shutdown.

Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought announced Friday that he will be pausing over $11 billion of project funding across several blue cities. This pause will halt funds for “lower-priority” projects overseen by the Army Corps of Engineers in New York City, San Francisco, Boston, and Baltimore.

‘We’re only going to cut Democrat programs, I hate to tell you.’

This pause comes more than two weeks into the Democrat-induced government shutdown after nearly a dozen failed votes on the Senate floor.

“The Democrat shutdown has drained the Army Corps of Engineers’ ability to manage billions of dollars in projects,” Vought wrote in a post on X. “The Corps will be immediately pausing over $11 billion in lower-priority projects & considering them for cancellation, including projects in New York, San Francisco, Boston, and Baltimore. More information to come from the Army Corps of Engineers.”

RELATED: White House deploys nuclear option amid Democrat-induced shutdown stalemate

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This pressure is the latest of several actions taken by the Trump administration since the government shut down on October 1. Ahead of the shutdown, Vought notified agencies to begin drafting reduction-in-force notices that later resulted in over 4,200 layoffs across various prominent agencies.

A Clinton-appointed judge in California has since halted those RIFs.

Vought also previously paused billions of dollars‘ worth of infrastructure and environmental projects in other blue cities like Chicago and New York City.

At the same time, the Trump administration is working to minimize shutdown pains for the military, working through Department of War Secretary Pete Hegseth to ensure that service members received their October 15 paycheck.

RELATED: White House dares Democrats with nuclear response to looming shutdown

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Trump previously warned Democrats that his administration would take these actions if they did not join Republicans to reopen the government. Assuming all 53 Republicans vote in favor of the funding resolution, at least seven Democrats need to join the GOP to reopen the government.

“We’re only going to cut Democrat programs, I hate to tell you,” Trump said during a Cabinet meeting last week.

“Chuck Schumer proclaimed this morning that every day gets better for them,” Trump added. “No, every day it’s actually getting worse for them, and they’re having a rebellion in the Democrat Party because they want to stop.”

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CHICAGO, Ill. — The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement processing facility in Broadview has been the site of many rowdy and sometimes violent protests as Operation Midway Blitz is well under way. With rioters consistently attempting to block the building’s driveway and road to disrupt operations, the federal government installed a temporary security fence to keep crowds at a distance.

That changed this week after a judge ruled the fence must come down after a lawsuit was brought by the city, saying the installment prevented emergency services from reaching other buildings behind the fence. The fence was effective in preventing agitators from blocking the driveway and forced the crowds to switch locations to gather. Border Patrol and ICE agents still had to repeatedly clear the roads to allow federal vehicles to reach the facility.

‘What’s happening is not just regular business there. It was rioting.’

Perhaps in an attempt to prevent the National Guard from being deployed, the Illinois State Police and Cook County Sheriff’s Office have sent manpower to assist federal agents in keeping the roads clear. While the extra manpower has been put to use with the disruptive anti-ICE crowds, ICE says the removal of the fence means agents cannot use yet another tool in their toolbox to keep themselves, detainees, and the facility safe.

“Anyone should be able to come up to a federal building when they have some business there, but what’s happening is not just regular business there. It was rioting,” Sam Olsen, field office director for Enforcement and Removal Operations in Chicago, told Blaze News.

RELATED: Border Patrol squashes anti-ICE blockade outside ICE facility in Illinois

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“That fence did give us some additional protection,” Olsen noted, adding that it was good to see local and state law enforcement on the ground after weeks of no support.

Concrete barriers now line the roads around the facility to keep crowds on the sidewalk, though sometimes those barriers do not deter people from jumping over them.

The security fence also gave ICE agents breathing room as they wait to see whether the National Guard can be deployed. While soldiers from Texas were sent to protect the building in Broadview and were seen patrolling behind the fence, their deployment has been halted in a similar fashion to the deployment in Portland, Oregon.

Olsen said the recent deadly shooting at the ICE facility in Dallas, which killed two detainees and injured a third, is fresh in agents’ minds as they work to secure the building near Chicago. Despite the over 1000% increase in attacks on federal agents, both Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker (D) and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson (D) continue to blame the violence on Homeland Security personnel instead of anti-ICE crowds attacking agents conducting operations.

Friday morning saw more chaotic protests in Broadview down the street from the ICE building, with ISP troopers arresting multiple people who refused to leave the road when ordered. Some also expressed concern about the lack of fencing ahead of the No Kings protests slated to take place in Chicago as well as all over the country.

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Fresh off being schooled by Chicago residents on how illegal border crossings are indeed criminal, ex-CNN talking head Don Lemon suggested that non-whites in America should take up arms against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.

At the outset of his recent appearance on Wajahat Ali’s podcast “The Left Hook,” Lemon noted, “I’m tired of like all the niceties because that doesn’t work in this administration. That doesn’t work in this era. You got to dispense with the niceties and … ‘let’s just be civil.'”

After expressing the extremist sentiment a recent poll indicated is common to a plurality of liberals, Lemon told Ali, “I think that these are the times that the Second Amendment was written for.”

‘Words have consequences, and this type of rhetoric is going to get one of our officers killed.’

Ensuring that there could be no confusion as to his meaning, Lemon characterized the Trump administration as “tyrannical,” then noted that the Second Amendment’s raison d’être is to ensure Americans can fight a tyrannical government.

Blaze News has reached out to Lemon for clarification on whether he meant to incite rebellion against the U.S. government.

Lemon, who previously criticized Republicans for defending the Second Amendment, further suggested that those individuals who are being targeted by ICE “need to really figure out what the Second Amendment is really about and go out, and do it legally, and purchase some things because you never know when someone’s going to come to your house and knock on the door and try to take you away.”

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Later in the podcast, Lemon once again suggested that individuals should be armed and ready in case federal immigration officials come to their residences.

“If you believe in the Second Amendment, if you believe in the Constitution — black people, brown people of all stripes, whether you’re an Indian-American or a Mexican-American or whoever you are — go out in your place where you live and get a gun legally,” said Lemon. “Get a license to carry legally, because when you have people knocking on your door and taking you away without due process as a citizen, isn’t that what the Second Amendment was written for?”

When asked about the apparently inciting nature of Lemon’s remarks, Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement to Blaze News, “Don Lemon’s comments calling for people to ‘arm up’ with guns to use against ICE law enforcement officers are unhinged.”

“Calling for violence against law enforcement is un-American — officers are already facing a 1000% increase in assaults against them including terrorist attacks, cars being used as weapons, rocks thrown at them, and shot at,” continued McLaughlin. “Words have consequences, and this type of rhetoric is going to get one of our officers killed.”

Lemon made his recommendation just weeks after a leftist sniper opened fire on the ICE field office in Dallas. While the shooter, Joshua Jahn, had been targeting law enforcement officers, he ultimately hit three detainees — two of whom ultimately perished — then killed himself. The words “ANTI-ICE” were reportedly found engraved on ammunition recovered at the scene of the shooting.

Ali defended Lemon’s remarks in a statement to Fox News Digital.

“I only speak for myself, but Don Lemon has a right to express his views in the United States of America thanks to the First Amendment, which is allegedly championed by the Trump administration,” said Ali. “I’d assume Republicans would agree with him that Americans have the right to legally bear arms thanks to the Second Amendment. Unless, of course, they only believe that right exists for white Trump supporters? If so, they should admit that publicly.”

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The Trump administration has used its influence to shut down an effort by a U.N.-backed organization to convince nations to impose a global carbon tax.

The tax was meant to decrease dependence on carbon-producing industries and to fund policies intended to combat “climate change.”

‘The United States will NOT stand for this Global Green New Scam Tax on Shipping, and will not adhere to it in any way, shape, or form.’

Supporters believed the global tax would be approved at the International Maritime Organization summit in London, but on Friday, the talks fell apart after the the U.S. State Department threatened to take action. President Donald Trump also lambasted the tax on social media.

“I am outraged that the International Maritime Organization is voting in London this week to pass a global Carbon Tax,” wrote the president Thursday.

“The United States will NOT stand for this Global Green New Scam Tax on Shipping, and will not adhere to it in any way, shape, or form,” he added. “We will not tolerate increased prices on American Consumers OR, the creation of a Green New Scam Bureaucracy to spend YOUR money on their Green dreams. Stand with the United States, and vote NO in London tomorrow!”

The tax had been approved in a meeting in April and was expected to be confirmed Friday. Opposition from the U.S. led Singapore to propose postponing the vote. The organization will meet in another 12 months to reconsider the global “scam” tax.

RELATED: MSNBC anchor tells audience all life is pointless if we’re not addressing climate change

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio also posted a message in opposition to the tax.

“This week, the UN is attempting to pass the first global carbon tax , which will increase energy, food, and fuel costs across the world,” he wrote on social media.

“We will not allow the UN to tax American citizens and companies,” Rubio added. “Under the leadership of @POTUS, the U.S. will be a hard NO. We call on other nations to stand alongside the United States in defense of our citizens and sovereignty.”

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As mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani continues to lead the New York City mayoral race and Election Day for the next mayor looms closer, so does the city’s impending doom, according to BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales.

“He could be one of the most catastrophic mayors to ever, ever be in New York City,” BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales says on “Sara Gonzales Unfiltered.”

And while many Americans will drown out the goings-on in faraway places like New York City, Gonzales warns that just because you may not be potentially living under Mamdani’s rule, you will still be affected by it.

“The financial capital of the entire world — it actually affects all of us,” Gonzales says.

In a recent interview on Fox News, Mamdani was asked by Martha MacCallum if he had any intention of changing his mind on bail reform after hearing the story of an elderly man beaten to death on the subway by a 25-year-old who was out on bail when he allegedly killed him.

“Does that make you want to change your mind or think twice about reversing that?” MacCallum asked.

“What it makes me think about is the necessity of providing public safety in our New York City subway system and across the five boroughs. And also, how do we end the revolving door? Because when you look further into the case … what we find is so often the only mental health system that we have that’s functioning in this city is Rikers Island,” Mamdani said.

“It’s a revolving door because you keep letting them out,” Gonzales comments. “There’s a solution. You just keep them in prison. We keep the dangerous criminals away from society. It’s very, very simple, Zohran.”

And in a podcast interview, Mamdani was asked whether or not prisons are “obsolete.”

“I mean, what purpose do they serve?” Mamdani asked. “I think we have to ask ourselves that, which is that, you know, I think a lot of people who defend the carceral state, they defend the idea of it and the way it makes them feel.”

“I will be the first to admit it does make me feel much safer to have criminals locked up … and I will never be bashful about sharing that, ever,” Gonzales says.

“What purpose does it serve? Oh, I don’t know. It keeps law-abiding citizens safe. It’s really that easy,” she adds.

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