A former New Hampshire state lawmaker and her one-time romantic partner have pleaded guilty to taking and exchanging explicit images of children at a Massachusetts day care in 2023, federal prosecutors said Wednesday.

Stacie Marie Laughton, 41, a former New Hampshire state representative from Nashua, was first arrested in July 2023 after investigators found she had received explicit images of children from her former partner, 40-year-old Lindsay Groves of Hudson, N.H.

Groves took the photos of nude 3-to 5-year-olds at Creative Minds Early Learning Center in Tyngsborough, where she worked from May 2022 until her own arrest in June 2023.

Both women have since pleaded guilty to child pornography charges, according to a statement from U.S. Attorney Leah B. Foley’s office. Laughton enter

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