Lisa Biron

Biron was admitted to the New Hampshire Bar Association (ID #18908) and Massachusetts Bar Association (ID #672393) in 2008.

Lisa A. Biron (born 1969) is a disbarred attorney from Manchester, New Hampshire, and a convicted child molester and child pornographer.

Biron lived in New Hampshire from 1972 and graduated from Milford High School in 1987.

She then spent the next decade battling a drug and alcohol problem; she tallied numerous arrests for driving under the influence and driving with a suspended license.

She was also involved in numerous abusive marriages.

By the start of the new millennium, she had become an evangelical Christian, and graduated from Hesser College (later Mount Washington College, now defunct) with a degree in business in 2001 and was valedictorian of her class.

In her valedictory speech, she credited her Christian faith with turning her life around, as well as the birth of her daughter.

"When I became pregnant with my daughter, I now had the responsibility for a second life," she said.

Biron graduated Valedictorian from Franklin Pierce College in 2005 where she earned her undergraduate degree in criminal justice.

In 2008, she earned her law degree from Regent University where she served as Senior Editor of the Regent Law Review.

Also while at Regent, she served as a member of the Trial Advocacy Board, and as a member of the moot court team.

She joined the Law Offices of Welts, White & Fontaine, P.C. in Nashua as an associate in September 2008, where she worked until 2012.

She became associated with the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), a network of lawyers aligned with the Christian right.

Biron was also a Blackstone Legal Fellow, member of the Christian Legal Society, and member of the Federalist Society.

She is the author of Constitutionally Coerced: Why Sentencing a Convicted Offender to a Faith-based Rehabilitation Program Does Not Violate the Establishment Clause.

In November 2012, she was indicted on federal charges related to the sexual exploitation of her 14-year-old daughter, including taking her to Canada to have sex with a man there.

On September 29, 2012, Brandon Ore, an 18-year-old from Merrimack, told Manchester police officers that he'd seen child pornography on Biron's laptop computer.

Ore had first met Biron in the summer of 2012 when he answered a Craigslist ad placed by "two girls, 18 and 33, looking to party."

He moved in with them in July 2012 and had sex with the "18-year-old" on several occasions.

However, two months after moving in, he moved back out and went to the police after learning that the two "roommates" were really mother and daughter—and that the "18-year-old" was really a 14-year-old girl.

Police obtained a search warrant for Biron's house on October 9.

After a forensic search turned up five videos and two pictures of her daughter having sex with an unknown man, Biron was arrested that day and charged with seven counts of possession of child pornography.

She was released on $35,000 bond.

She was formally arraigned on October 26, and ordered to have no contact with her daughter, have no unsupervised contact with anyone under 18, use her computer only for work and not possess weapons.

Her daughter was taken into foster care.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation was called in almost immediately, as Manchester police suspected the videos and pictures had been produced out of state.

Agents from the FBI, United States Customs Service, United States Border Patrol and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement discovered that Biron had taken her daughter to Niagara Falls, Ontario, on Memorial Day 2012 and coerced her into having sex several times over a three-day period with a man Biron had met on Craigslist.

On November 14, a federal grand jury returned a sealed indictment charging Biron with seven federal charges—one count each of transportation with intent to engage in criminal sexual activity and possession of child pornography, and five counts of sexual exploitation of children.

Two days later, on November 16, Biron was awaiting a probable cause hearing to determine whether there was enough evidence against her to put her on trial on the state charges when FBI agents entered the courtroom and whisked her to the federal courthouse in Concord.

There, she appeared before federal magistrate judge Landya McCafferty and was arraigned on the federal charges.

Federal prosecutors told McCafferty that Biron had openly flouted her bond conditions.

She had not only placed an ad on Craigslist, but had somehow acquired 200 rounds of ammunition and had been seen having sex and using marijuana, ecstasy and cocaine on several occasions—in some cases around children.

She had also sent a threatening text message to Ore and had asked people to lie to investigators.

Combined with other evidence, McCafferty ordered Biron jailed without bond, saying that while she was not a flight risk, "there are no conditions or combination of conditions of release that will reasonably assure the safety of the community."

She was convicted on all charges in a January 2013 trial, and was sentenced that May to 40 years in prison.

On January 3, 2013, an additional charge of child exploitation was added in a superseding indictment.

According to John Kacavas, the United States Attorney for New Hampshire, this charge was based on evidence that Biron had recorded herself having sex with her daughter.

The case attracted some additional notoriety due to Biron's ties to the ADF, designated a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

The ADF issued a statement in an attempt to distance itself from Biron, stressing that she was only associated with them and was never an employee.

Biron's trial took place on January 9, 2013 and January 10, 2013, before federal Judge Paul Barbadoro.