Unnamed Girl - 5 yo - / Accused: Laura Eliazbeth Anderson Jacksonville NC

Woman Charged with Sex Crimes Against 5-Year-Old

April 29, 2011



Onslow County, N.C. – A 23-year-old Jacksonville woman has been arrested for sex crimes against a 5-year-old girl.

Deputies say Laura Elizabeth Anderson is being charged with first degree sexual offense, indecent liberties, and crime against nature for allegedly helping her husband sexually abuse the child.

Investigators reveal that Anderson and her husband allegedly recorded sex acts they both participated in on the 5-year-old.

Investigators say Anderson and her husband gave the child sleeping pills and then performed sex acts while the girl was unconscious.

Why has her husband not been charged? Why is he not named?

NCIS queries Lejeune sailors in child porn case



THURSDAY APR 28, 2011 16:43:28 EDT

Two sailors assigned to the naval hospital at Camp Lejeune, N.C., are being described as “persons of interest” in a child molestation and child pornography investigation that has netted a local woman on charges that include the molestation of her 5-year-old niece.

One of the sailors is in the brig while the other has been turned over to his command, according to Ed Buice of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, which is conducting the investigation. Their names are not being released as neither has been formally charged with a crime, he said.

Laura Elizabeth Anderson was arrested at 9 p.m. Wednesday at her Jacksonville, N.C., home, according to the Onslow County Sheriff’s Office.

Search warrants were executed at the home and other locations by NCIS, with the assistance of a sheriff’s office detective sergeant. Several types of evidence were collected including numerous computers, which NCIS cyber teams will analyze, Buice said. At least one media outlet was reporting that the husband of the woman, Laura Anderson, is a Marine assigned to the base and that the two are accused of giving sleeping pills to the child before performing sex acts on her while she was unconscious.

The sheriff’s office confirmed that Anderson and her husband gave the child sleeping pills and abused her as the outlet described but did not identify the husband, his whereabouts or his affiliation. Buice said the outlet’s identity of the man was erroneous.

“None of those involved are Marines,” Buice said.

Anderson is being held in the Onslow County Jail on $100,000 bond.

She is charged with first-degree sexual offense, a crime against nature, and indecent liberties with a child.

The identity of the girl and her connection to Anderson are not being released at this time, Buice said.

NCIS is investigating whether there might be additional victims, Buice said.

Laura Elizabeth Anderson