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FLINT, MI - A Kalamazoo woman has been sentenced to 25 years in federal prison after authorities say she sent an Imlay City man photos of herself engaged in sexual activity with her 2-year-old granddaughter and with a small dog.

Crystal Runyon was sentenced Tuesday, July 12, to 25 years in prison by Flint U.S. District Judge Linda V. Parker after pleading guilty earlier this year to a single charge of conspiracy to manufacture child pornography.

The sentence fell in the middle of the range suggested by federal sentencing guidelines.

The Federal Bureau of Investigations claimed it began investigating Runyon, 42, after it started a criminal case against David Gors, an Imlay City man who allegedly was using social media websites to meet children in order to manufacture his own collection of child pornography.

Her attorney, Henry Scharg, argued Runyon had a history of being a victim of physical, psychological and sexual abuse during her own upbringing. She also was previously hospitalized in a mental health facility and had numerous interactions with the juvenile justice system, he claimed in a sentencing memorandum filed with the court.

The abuse carried over into her adult personal relationships.

"This cycle of physical and verbal abuse was never broken and appears to have profound(ly) affected her self-development and maturity," Scharg argued.

She also had a substance abuse history that dated back to the age of five, when she first began smoking cigarettes.

Scharg argued for a 15-year prison sentence, which is the mandatory minimum sentence for the charge.

Runyon admitted to producing sexually-explicit images of her granddaughter and emailing them to Gors.

Gors allegedly told authorities he met Runyon through a social media website and the two began an online relationship that included a role-playing scenario that involved Gors pretending to be an 11-year-old old boy, according to a criminal complaint filed in November 2014.

Authorities claimed the relationship was sexual and revolved around the fictional sexual assault of the 11-year-old persona's made-up younger sister, according to the complaint.

However, federal investigators claimed in the complaint that the relationship strayed from the imaginary when Runyon allegedly sent Gors photos of herself performing sex acts on her granddaughter.

Runyon also allegedly told investigators that she sent him photos of herself engaged in a sex act with a small dog, according to court records. She did not face any charges in connection to her alleged activity with the animal.

Gors pleaded guilty in May to a federal charge of conspiracy to manufacture child pornography. He admitted to communicating with more than 70 girls through social media, received more than 175 sexually-explicit photos from girls he believed to be underage and participated in live online streaming showing the sexual abuse of minors.

He is scheduled to be sentenced Sept. 8. Federal guidelines call for a 30 year prison sentence.

A third man, Mark Tooley, who was Runyon's boyfriend, was sentenced in December 2014 to up to 50 years in state prison after he uploaded sexually explicit photos of children to Twitter, recorded himself performing a sex act on Runyon's granddaughter and admitted to having "thousands" of images of child pornography investigators found on his computer.