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FLINT, MI - A Kalamazoo woman has pleaded guilty after authorities say she sent photos of herself engaged in sexual activity with her 2-year-old granddaughter and a small dog to an Imlay City man.

Crystal Runyon pleaded guilty Wednesday, March 30, in Flint U.S. District Court to a single charge of conspiracy to manufacture child pornography.

The Federal Bureau of Investigations claimed it began investigating Runyon after it started a criminal case against David Gors, an Imlay City man who allegedly was using social media websites to meet children in order to manufacture his own collection of child pornography.

Runyon admitted to producing sexually-explicit images of the child and sending to Gors through email.

Gors allegedly told authorities he met Runyon through a social media website and the two began an online relationship that involved a role-playing scenario that involved Gors man pretending to be an 11-year-old old boy, according to criminal complaint filed in November 2014.

Authorities claim the relationship was sexual and revolved around the fictional sexual assault of the 11-year-old boy's made-up younger sister, according to the complaint.

However, federal investigators claim in the complaint that the relationship strayed from the imaginary when Runyon allegedly sent Gors photos of herself performing sex acts on the child.

Runyon also allegedly told investigators that she sent him photos of herself engaged in a sex act with a small dog, according to court records. She did not face any charges in connection to her alleged activity with the animal.

Federal sentencing guidelines call for Runyon to serve up to 27 years in federal prison. The charge carries a mandatory minimum of 15 years in prison.

The agreement also calls for Runyon to forfeit multiple sex toys, a whip, five cell phones and four computers to federal authorities.

She is scheduled to be sentenced July 12.

A June 20 trial date is set for Gors, who is currently facing multiple sex crime charges.

A third man, Mark Tooley, who was Runyon's boyfriend, was sentenced in December 2014 to up to 50 years in state prison after he uploaded sexually explicit photos of children to Twitter, recorded himself performing a sex act on Runyon's granddaughter and admitted to having "thousands" of images of child pornography investigators found on his computer.