Mom Busted For Topless Pic With Teen Daughter

DECEMBER 18--A Missouri mother who posed topless for a hot tub photo with her equally topless 14-year-old daughter is facing a criminal charge after the image began circulating at a pair of local high schools, police report.

The 50-year-old woman and her child posed for the photo last month at their home in Wentzville, a city 40 miles west of St. Louis. According to a probable cause statement, the pair “were covering up their nipples in the picture.”

The hot tub photo, investigators reported, was subsequently “circulated throughout two high schools in the Rockwood School District.” As a result, the woman’s son “was ridiculed by classmates for the picture of his mother and sister.”

The photo was snapped by the teen's sister, who used her sibling's phone.

While a Wentzville Police Department investigator does not reveal how the photo began circulating, he notes that the teenager last year had “court mandated counseling” related to “taking photographs of herself nude and circulating it around her high school.”

The girl’s mother was named in a December 12 misdemeanor information charging her with endangering the welfare of a minor. TSG is not identifying the woman (seen above) to protect the teen's identity. (3 pages)