Babysitter Accused Of Sexual Assaults May Have LA Victims

LOS ANGELES, CA -- Police in San Diego County are asking for parents who may have hired a babysitter who, along with her boyfriend, was accused of sexually molesting two 7-year-old girls, to come forward as they believe there may be additional victims.

*This story has been updated from its initial version. Please see editor's note below.

Brittney Mae Lyon, who investigators believe also used aliases, advertised her babysitting services on care.com, sitter.com and sittercity.com prior to her arrest July 6, 2016, in San Diego County, on suspicion of eight counts of lewd and lascivious acts on children, according to Carlsbad police.

Investigators believe she may have babysat for parents in Los Angeles, Riverside and San Bernardino counties. They are asking for those parents to come forward.

Lyon, 23, is suspected of videotaping as her boyfriend, Samuel Cabrera Jr., also 23, allegedly molested two girls she was babysitting on multiple occasions over several months.

Lyon and Cabrera, who faces the same charges, are each jailed on $2.6 million bail. Both are due in court for a readiness conference June 13.

Anyone who had used Lyon as a babysitter or knows someone who did was asked to call Carlsbad police Detective Steve Stallman at (760) 931-2293.

City News Service contributed to this report. Photos courtesy of the Carlsbad Police Department

*Editor's Note: The initial version of this story included three photos shared by the Carlsbad Police Department, which has since rescinded the photos and released this statement:

"We would like to formally apologize to Lauren Allen, her family and friends. In a media release today we listed Lauren’s name and photo as the alias used by the suspect, Brittney Lyon. We want to state unequivocally that Lauren Allen herself is in no way a suspect in this case. We are sorry to cause concern or to associate Lauren’s name with this type of criminal behavior. We made a mistake by not thoroughly vetting the investigative information before we released it to the public. We removed the photos. We personally reached out to Lauren to apologize and are conducting an internal investigation to ensure this does not happen again."

Carlsbad police also posted to its Facebook page this media interview with Capt. Mickey Williams talking about the mistake and the case: