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A 34-year-old woman who posted an online advertisement seeking money for sex with a Lincoln teenager got prison time for it Monday.

Jacqueline Stebbins pleaded guilty to a single count of pandering of a minor. Two other counts were dropped.

Defense attorney Joy Shiffermiller said Stebbins, too, was the victim of this kind of crime when she was about the same age, 17, as the oldest of the three victims in this case.

She said Stebbins believed others were taking advantage of the girl by taking her money, so she tried to help her by putting up the ad. Now Stebbins regrets it, Shiffermiller said.

When a plain-clothes officer answered the online ad for an escort and showed up June 14, 2016, at Kayla Holt's apartment near 16th and Garfield streets, Kimberly Wheeler answered the door, collected money and showed him to a 17-year-old runaway, prosecutors said.

In a warrant for Stebbins' arrest, police said the website ad for "escort services" for the teen traced back to Stebbins' cellphone and email address.

She and Wheeler both were accused of being involved in the plot to get money from men for sex with teenage girls, an arrest warrant says.