CHARLOTTE, N.C. — It's a story that even her neighbors found hard to believe.
"She had us all fooled," said Monique Murphy about the Charlotte woman charged with helping a man she met online sexually assault her own 1-year-old daughter.
Charlotte-Mecklenburg police and SBI agents arrested Darlene Enos after, they said, she told them that she had met Vincent McDougald online in a chat room devoted to bondage and sadism.
In a search warrant, police say that their chats were sexual in nature and led to McDougald coming to Enos' east Charlotte apartment to have sex with Enos and her daughter.
Detectives said Enos admitted helping McDougald sexually assault the girl and then assaulted the girl herself.
Neighbors said they had seen Enos and her daughter, and most did not suspect anything was wrong. But Murphy said she did notice that the little girl seemed different.
“Babies are happy, and she was acting up and talking the ways children shouldn't talk -- cursing and stuff like that. All the signs that a child is going through something," Murphy said.
Murphy said she began suspecting something might be wrong in February when police and state agents showed up at Enos' apartment. Sources told Eyewitness News that they were serving a search warrant after a tip led them to believe Enos might have child pornography on her computer.
No one could confirm what, if anything, agents found on that computer.
Police said Enos' daughter is now with her grandfather. They are also trying to confirm that a judge in New Jersey had ordered Enos to give up her other children before she moved to North Carolina.
Enos now faces a long list of charges, including rape and sexual assault of her child.
"I'm glad that she's where she's at. She can't hurt that child, and I hope she never gets out of jail," Murphy said. "If there's any justice, she's going to pay for what she's done."
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