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Sara Packer and Jacob Sullivan

(Bucks County district attorney's office)

More troubling details are emerging in the horrific case of a mother and her boyfriend accused of beating, raping, poisoning and ultimately strangling her 14-year-old daughter in Bucks County, Pa.

Grace Packer.

Among those details is the fact that the accused mother, Sara Packer, 41, of Montgomery County, once worked for the Children, Youth and Family Division in Northampton County, according to our sister website, LehighValleyLive.com.

The detail was first reported by WFMZ-TV.

According to the reports, Packer worked for the agency charged with helping abused children in 2010. Her exact duties were not immediately known.

Packer adopted 14-year-old Grace Packer at the age of 3 after Grace was placed in foster care, according to published reports.

Packer and her boyfriend, Jacob Patrick Sullivan, 44, of Horsham, Pa., are accused of killing Grace over the summer and then dismembering and dumping her body as part of a "rape-murder fantasy," according to the Bucks County Districts Attorney's office.

Each face nearly 20 counts, including criminal homicide, rape, kidnapping, abuse of a corpse, child endangerment, tampering with evidence and several related conspiracy counts, LehighValleyLive.com writes, adding:

Sullivan was arrested Saturday after allegedly telling several workers at Abington Hospital-Jefferson Health he was responsible for killing Grace Packer and that the girl's mother, Sara Packer, was an accomplice. He later revealed in detail to Bucks County detectives how Grace was assaulted and killed over the course of 18 hours, according to a police affidavit.

Authorities said the couple in fall of 2015 wanted to kill Grace Packer after she arrived home from staying with a relative in North Carolina. They later carried out the act on July 8 in a home on East Cherry Road in Richland Township, Bucks County, outside Quakertown.

The couple brought the girl sleepy in pajamas to a home, where Sullivan beat and raped the child and then, the couple put her in a hot attic, according to the affidavit of probable cause.

When they returned several hours later and found she was still alive, Sullivan strangled and suffocated the girl, court records said. They then placed Grace Packer's corpse for weeks in cat litter before dismembering the body and dumping it into a remote area in north-central Pennsylvania, according to the affidavit.

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