Kevin Grasha

kgrasha@enquirer.com

A Warren County woman admitted Thursday that she repeatedly provided an 11-year-old girl to her drug dealer in exchange for heroin.

April Corcoran, 32, pleaded guilty in Hamilton County Common Pleas Court to multiple counts of complicity to rape and human trafficking. Corcoran also admitted giving the girl heroin numerous times as a reward, Assistant Prosecutor Katherine Pridemore said, “for being a brave little girl.”

The heroin always caused the girl to vomit, Pridemore told Judge Leslie Ghiz. A sentencing is set for July 19. Corcoran, a Pleasant Plain resident, faces up to life in prison.

Pridemore said the drug dealer engaged in numerous sex acts with the girl at his Camp Washington apartment. She said he video-recorded many of the encounters, which happened between February 2014 and June 2014.

That man, 42-year-old Shandell Willingham, has been convicted in Indiana on unrelated drug charges as well as child pornography charges. He is scheduled to be brought back to Hamilton County Monday, officials said. He faces multiple charges involving the girl.

Offering a child for sex in exchange for heroin, Pridemore told reporters outside the courtroom – "It's unfathomable."

Pridemore said the girl, now, 13, is living out of state with her father and stepmother. They were not involved in the case.

Corcoran's attorney, James Bogen, said she became addicted to heroin after first becoming addicted to pain medication. An addiction expert is expected to testify at the July sentencing.

"She wanted to take responsibility for her actions," Bogen said about the plea. "She didn't want to put (the girl) through any further trauma."