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Victoria Martens: Monster Mom Enjoyed Watching Man Kill Daughter And Have Sex With Dead Body

By Tito Ojo-Medubi
Published on: 01:50 PST, Sep 16, 2016

Michelle Martens, the mother of Victoria Martens, a 10-year-old girl who was sexually assaulted and strangled, said she set up her daughter with older men because she enjoyed watching them have sex, the Albuquerque Journal is reporting.

Investigators who obtained a search warrant to go through the Martens residence recovered five smartphones, a thumb drive, Kindle tablet, iPod, cell phone, camcorder, and nine mini discs.

One of the officers involved in the investigation revealed that he would be surprised if they did not find anything incriminating on what they had seized.

“In my training and experience, those who are interested in the sexual exploitation of children are also interested in exploiting images of children for sexual gratification.”

He added that they would also be poring over the devices to see who Martens was talking to and sharing perverted material with before her daughter’s gruesome death.

The 35-year-old monster mom said she had on three occasions allowed men to sexually assault her daughter. Martens said one of them was a colleague at work, while the other two were online liaisons. The brutal sexual attack that killed Victoria Martens was orchestrated by Fabian Gonzales, a man Martens met online.

The 31-year-old man, his cousin Jessica Kelley, and Michelle Martens are accused of injecting Victoria with methamphetamine and sexually assaulting her before strangling and stabbing her to death.

A caller dialed 911 over a disturbance at the apartment Martens shared with her daughter around 4:30 a.m. Apparently, Gonzales and Martens had been attacked by Kelley with an iron rod. When police arrived, they discovered a horrific crime scene. Victoria Martens body was in the bathroom, rolled up in a blanket that had been set on fire. Authorities estimate her time of death at around 3 a.m.

Police Chief Gorden Eden Jr. called it one of the most grisly crimes in all his years of working for the Albuquerque police force.

“This homicide is the most gruesome act of evil I have ever seen in my career, a complete disregard of human life.”

Martens revealed to police that she used the dating website Plenty of Fish to look for men who would have sex with her daughter, and she was also on the hunt for anyone who would sleep with her 8-year-old son. The perverted mother said she could easily pinpoint the men interested in sleeping with kids because she “saw the signs.”

Martens told officers that methamphetamine was given to Victoria to help her relax. She said she watched as Kelley held her daughter down and Gonzales raped and strangled her. She added that she continued to watch as Kelley stabbed her daughter. She said she was there as the two cousins butchered her daughter’s body, wrapped it in a blanket, and set it on fire in the bathtub.

Martens said her daughter died from a meth overdose. Authorities disagree, saying the girl either died from her stab wounds or strangulation.

A search warrant revealed that Michelle Martens watched the vicious assault of her daughter for “sexual gratification.” In a separate warrant, Gonzales said he had sexual intercourse again with Victoria Martens “shortly after the child was deceased.”

Earlier this month, the father of Marten’s 8-year-old son had sought a restraining order against the three suspects, claiming that Kelley and Gonzales had abused his son before.

Isaac Jaramillo, a worker at the daycare center the 10-year-old girl attended with her brother, said he never saw any red flags or signs of child abuse.

“Never once did it cross my mind that these children were living through something like this. How could she sit there and watch her child go through something like this?”

Jaramillo said he never saw the Martens as the perfect family but did not see their mother get physical or yell at the kids. The daycare worker said the signs that Michelle was capable of such an atrocity were simply not there to see.

“You want to look out for those red flags. Is the child alone? Is the child depressed? And not one time did I notice that in Victoria.”

[Featured Image by Metropolitan Detention Center/AP Images]

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