Mother prostitutes herself in her home as infant slept nearby 'because she is addicted to money'

A 32-year-old mother turned tricks in her home as her baby slept soundly nearby, police said today.



Danielle Nicole Barron, 32, was arrested last week after an undercover sting found the woman bringing clients to her Bradenton, Florida, home and abusing drugs all while her child was inside.



When she spoke to officers after her arrest, she told them that she knew what she was doing was dangerous, but that she was 'addicted to money'.



Arrested: Danielle Nicole Barron, 32, left, was arrested last week after an undercover sting found the woman bringing clients to her Bradenton, Florida, home and abusing drugs all while her child was inside. Barron is pictured with another one of her children at right in 2010



Home: Police began investigating Barron after they received a complaint that she had turned her home, pictured, into a brothel and was abusing drugs

Police began investigating Barron after they received a complaint that she had turned her home into a brothel and was abusing drugs.



Officials interviewed her but she denied the charges, the Bradenton Police Department told MailOnline.

Not too easily fooled, officers set up a sting operation to bust her in the act.

An undercover detective phoned the number on her Backpage.com advertisement and arranged a meeting with her.



Sting: An undercover detective phoned the number on her Backpage.com ad and arranged a meeting



While the two were on the phone, the detective heard an infant crying in the background.



The detective visited her Florida home shortly thereafter, where Barron demanded her $200 fee 'to f***', police said.

IS MONEY ADDICTION REAL?

Dr Tian Dayton, a clinical psychologist and author, says that addiction to money is all too real.

Called a 'process addiction', money addiction, like gambling, sex and eating, causes a compulsive and out of control relationship with certain behaviors.

'There is a change in brain chemistry with a process addiction that's similar to the mood altering effects of alcohol or drugs,' she said on the Huffington Post. 'The person who uses money to mood alter can have their relationship with money spin out of control; by being overly focused on accumulating it, spending it hoarding it or using it to control people, places and things.'

Over time, she says, money becomes the primary relationship in life, making other relationships, ie. to family and friends, secondary to the pursuit.



The officer gave the take-down signal and waiting policeman rushed the scene and arrested her.



At the police station, law enforcement officers read her her Miranda Rights and interviewed her.

They claim she said she had been prostituting herself for two years and knew it was dangerous to bring strangers into her home with a child inside.



She said that she brought them into her home because she was 'addicted to money', an arrest affidavit states.



She added that when her clients were inside the home, her boyfriend would take the baby outside.



Arrest records show Barron has had numerous run-ins with the law since 2004, including battery and criminal mischief.

This time, she was charged with child neglect and prostitution.



Child Protective Services has removed the child from the house.

On her Facebook page, it appears she has another daughter and a son that are much older.



While most of the page is private, one post from October 1, 2010 reads 'lick it like a lolipop [sic].'



Charged: Police claim she told them she had been prostituting herself for two years and knew it was dangerous to bring strangers into her home with a child inside

She lists her favorite quotation as 'lifes lifes [sic] box of chocolate ,you never know what your going to get' and says she is interested in men and women.



Claim: he said that she brought them into her home because she was 'addicted to money', an arrest affidavit states. She is pictured in a 2010 mugshot

She also lists the Louisville, Kentucky TAPP school for pregnant teens as her alma mater. She graduated in 1998.