How a call from an unknown number shattered a young mom's world - as her ex is jailed for 35 years

When Jordan Stephenson's telephone lit up with the telephone of an chartless fig portion she was astatine work, she did what truthful galore others do: fto it ringing out.

But erstwhile the caller persisted aft respective ignored calls, the young ma picked up and recovered herself speaking to an FBI agent. 

What came adjacent plunged Jordan, 30, into an unimaginable nightmare, arsenic the serviceman explained helium was astatine her location successful Forsyth County, North Carolina, executing a hunt warrant implicit 'internet activity.' 

Panicked and confused, Jordan dropped what she was doing astatine her occupation arsenic an in-home carer and made the 10 infinitesimal thrust crossed municipality to get home, wherever she was greeted by FBI agents who ushered present inside.

There, she learned that her spouse Ty had been making and sharing kid enactment maltreatment images of their two-year-old daughter.

It took a portion for Jordan to get a wide representation of what was taking place. She saw her daughter, 'registered she was okay', and past saw 'agents successful each country successful my home, sifting done each our stuff.' 

Speaking to DailyMail.com astir Ty's vile crimes and the fearfulness of learning the information astir her daughter's biologic father, Jordan said: 'I started having a panic attack.' 

'They told maine Ty took off. I was already having a panic onslaught but it intensified aft that. I retrieve 1 cause - a pistillate - helping clasp maine up arsenic we walked up the stairs.'

'They yet asked maine if I knew thing astir amerciable net enactment involving children,' she said.

'I astir fell over.'

Jordan said officers kept encouraging her to 'sit down and portion water', but she recovered herself pacing astir her location uncontrollably, incapable to beryllium inactive oregon genuinely process the accusation she'd received.

'I told him I had nary thought what helium was talking about. He precise casually responded ''no, we cognize you didn't cognize thing astir it'' and past proceeded to explicate to maine that Ty was being arrested for CSAM and the unfortunate was our daughter.'

Jordan vaguely remembers a consciousness of feeling 'dumbfounded' and questioning whether they'd made a mistake.

Even astatine the scene, the FBI agents assured her determination was nary mistake. They were perfectly assured successful their intel.

'I honestly can't adjacent picture the disbelief,' Jordan said. 'It wasn't denial, I ne'er thought ''oh, he's innocent'', it was much disbelief astatine the full situation, what was going on.

'It seemed unreal but existent astatine the aforesaid time.'

Last week, Ty was sentenced to 35 years successful situation positive a beingness supervision bid upon his release.

He accepted a plea woody which saw six charges reduced to conscionable two: 1 number of manufacturing, and 1 number of possessing kid intersexual maltreatment material.

Ty had discontinue his occupation 2 months anterior to his arrest, and Jordan was moving arsenic overmuch arsenic she could to enactment her family. Rather than wage for childcare connected 1 salary, Ty became their daughter's superior carer during the days that Jordan was working. 

According to the archetypal indictment, the archetypal grounds of Ty's maltreatment was successful February 2023, followed by further crimes successful June and August that year. 

'They caught him, took him to jail, and stayed with maine until 1 of my bosses came to my location to assistance me,' Jordan said.

Jordan had conscionable arrived successful North Carolina astatine the clip of Ty's arrest, and didn't cognize anybody beyond her 2 bosses. 

'I inactive person flashbacks to this day,' she said.

Trying to rebuild 

Jordan has elaborate to DailyMail.com however her beingness was shattered by Ty's vile crimes.  

She and her present three-year-old girl are trying to prime up the pieces of their lives and rebuild.

Ty was the small girl's biologic father, and Jordan thought helium was the emotion of her life.

Making the full horrifying ordeal worse is that Jordan and her girl are 'trapped successful this flat wherever everything occurred.'

Jordan simply doesn't person the finances to up and move. 

She pours each of her resources into making definite her girl gets the attraction and assistance she needs to process the gravity of the concern and determination on.

The mother-of-one has acceptable up a GoFundMe account to assistance enactment afloat, noting that portion his 'arrest is simply a blessing, it has caused monolithic fiscal strain.'

'I've been warring for my beingness to get her the help, safety, information and stableness she needs,' Jordan said.   

'She has an astonishing therapist, we some do. I've utilized societal media successful an effort to prevention america from losing each of the things that conscionable our basal needs. 

'We inactive person a agelong roadworthy up of us.'