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DECATUR – A Decatur woman is accused of videotaping the sexual abuse of her own 15-year-old developmentally delayed son, and then handing an iPod with the video of the crimes to another of her abused children after that child had been taken into care.

The mother, 35, was arrested at her home Sunday night and booked on a charge of permitting the sexual abuse of a child.

In sworn statements, detectives say they were contacted by the Peoria Children's Home, which confiscated the iPod from a juvenile girl who is the suspect's daughter. The girl had been previously removed from her mother after being molested at home. It's later alleged she was raped by a man after she was taken across state lines to visit him by her mother. Police say the man also had abused her on earlier occasions and was on the run from law enforcement at the time.

Child care workers who confiscated the iPod from the girl found hundreds of pictures and home videos on it and immediately turned it over to Decatur police.

Detective Janet Carlton, who is familiar with the family because of previous abuse cases and can recognize key individuals, said she viewed videos showing the 15-year-old suspect's son being sexually abused in the backyard of his Decatur home and performing simulated sex acts with an adult woman and others.