THE mum of a 10-year-old girl found dead and dismembered told police she sought men online to sexually assault her daughter because she liked to watch.

The Albuquerque Journal reports that Michelle Martens told police that she had set up at least three encounters with men to rape her daughter, Victoria.

Martens, 35, said one of the men was a co-worker and the others, including Fabian Gonzales, 31, she met online.

Martens, Gonzales and Jessica Kelly, 31, a cousin of Gonzales’, have all been charged in the death of Victoria — who was sexually assaulted and killed on her 10th birthday.

Police say Victoria was injected with methamphetamine, sexually assaulted, strangled and stabbed before being dismembered.

The mother told investigators that Gonzales and Kelley dismembered Victoria.

Mugshots of Martens and Gonzales released by police showed them with bruises on their faces. In his statement in the criminal complaint, Gonzales said his cousin hit him and Martens with an iron. Martens said Kelley held her hand over the child’s mouth and she stabbed the girl in the stomach after Gonzales had choked her.

Martens told investigators she didn’t do it for the money and that she set up the sexual assaults because she enjoyed watching.

She told police she used the dating website Plenty of Fish to look for men to have sex with Victoria and possibly her younger brother.

“Michelle said ‘yeah’ when asked if she would agree with them over the internet or over the phone that they would come over and have sex with her children,” an investigator wrote in one of the documents.

A public funeral for Victioria will be held on October 29 at 11am.