- California woman is first in Texas history to be determined a Sexually Violent Predator- Desiree Ham

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California woman determined to be a Sexually Violent Predator

The case against 37-year-old Desiree Hamm goes back to 2009 when prosecutors say she made contact with minors online and proceeded to groom them through role-playing games

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The case against 37-year-old Desiree Hamm goes back to 2009 when prosecutors say she made contact with minors online and proceeded to groom them through role-playing games.

Eventually, those games became sexual. Authorities say that Hamm, then 22, was able to brainwash two teenage girls into believing that the games were real. Hamm would continue the abuse by monitoring her victims on webcams that she sent them.

Hamm is then accused of using another adult woman to organize a trip from San Diego to Texas to abduct the teen girls.

The pair took the minors, holding them in the trunk of the car for part of the journey, to California.

Investigators were quickly led to Hamm through cell phones left behind by the girls. The sex offender lied to authorities and then moved the teens from San Diego to Fresno.

The girls remained there for a month where they were abused sexually, physically and psychologically. At one point, Hamm branded the girls with a brand that resembled one of her tattoos.

Cops were finally able to locate the girls when a tracking device was attached to a nebulizer that Hamm had to buy for one of the victims who was sick