A convicted sex offender says she was manipulated into horrific acts against children in her own family.

Wednesday afternoon the southern Indiana woman told her side of the story only to WHAS-TV, from jail.

“Who knew that your life would go to forgive my phrase "hell in a hand basket?" says Jennifer Jacobi.  “But it can because I had a really typical normal life before that. I had everything and I threw it all away.”

In the small southern Indiana community of Greenville Indiana, Jennifer Jacobi was living out her days as a wife, mother and substitute teacher.

She may be sorry now, but Jacobi, who spoke to me today from the Harrison County jail, says her world came crashing down when she met Richard Prado from Maine.

“He made me feel like none of the stuff we were doing was wrong,” says Jacobi. “I knew it was but he made me feel like it wasn't.”

The two connected over the internet - Jacobi says she thought she was in love with him.

She says he told her to molest children in her family - and she did.

“People complain about addiction of alcohol, the addiction of drugs. I have an addiction, its computers and the necessity of needing other people’s approval,” Jacobi says. “He gave me approval and I was very needy. That was the whole problem right there.”

Police arrested Prado in March of 2006. He was suspected of being a major producer of child pornography. He hung himself in jail two weeks after his arrest.

But before he was charged police say he came to see Jacobi in Greenville. They say he molested the children in her family while he was there.

“It makes me hate myself just a little bit more every time I think about it, because I have hurt so many people especially my husband and my kids,” Jacobi says.

Jacobi was arrested in February of 2006 in Harrison County and has been locked up there ever since.

But on Monday she pled guilty to charges child molestation and arranging for an adult to molest a child.

She says she agreed to the interview because she wanted to tell her family how sorry she is - and she wanted her side of the story to come out.

When asked if she saw herself as a sex offender she replied, “Honestly, no.”

During all of this Jacobi was married to someone else in Greenville. Police say he was not involved in the crimes.

Jacobi still has a tentative plea agreement in place with the federal government - she is facing federal charges of producing child pornography.

She's already been sentenced to 66 years in prison in county court and she could face a similar sentence in federal court.

Before all of this Jacobi only had two speeding tickets on her record.