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Read our AI Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n Between the fall of 2025 and this spring, law enforcement got at least four tips making the same claim: a Durham mother was keeping her children in a camper and letting men have sex with them for drugs.<\/p>\n Read more NC lawmakers pitch 3 new HOA changes. Do they go far enough for homeowners?<\/a><\/p>\n That mother, the tipsters claimed, was 40-year-old Antinett Lynn Lambertson. Durham police arrested her last week on multiple charges of felony child abuse stemming from a sexual act, exposing a child to a controlled substance and contributing to the delinquency of a juvenile, court records show.<\/p>\n The investigation began in October, when someone reported to Durham County Child Protective Services that one of her children was being trafficked for narcotics. Lambertson and both of her children were using illegal drugs and living in a dilapidated camper in East Durham, search warrants claim.<\/p>\n That same month, police received an anonymous CrimeStoppers tip with the same claim, though this tipster \u201calso stated there is a sex trafficking prostitution ring related to other adult individuals,\u201d according to search warrants. Detectives spoke to at least three people who alleged Lambertson and others had been trafficking a minor for drugs, the warrants state.<\/p>\n The FBI became involved in April after its National Threat Operations Center got an anonymous tip that Lambertson and two others were sexually abusing a child, according to search warrants. Less than a month later, Durham police received yet another anonymous tip.<\/p>\n It wasn\u2019t the first time Durham police had investigated Lambertson. They\u2019d received multiple reports in 2025 and 2026 about Lambertson\u2019s children, including several reports where one of the children mentioned being sexually assaulted by men at hotels in Durham, according to search warrants.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen asked, [the child] advised her mother was not involved,\u201d search warrants state. \u201cFurther review of the latest report revealed Lambertson introducing adult men to her children at a hotel, leaving them alone with adult men, being in the general vicinity at the time of the crimes, and (after being notified by her child that she was sexually assaulted) failing to immediately notify police.\u201d<\/p>\n It\u2019s not clear when the alleged assaults occurred or when police were first made aware of them. Lambertson\u2019s arrest warrants allege she allowed men to sexually assault one of her children in March 2025, December 2025 and June of this year.<\/p>\n And those reports weren\u2019t the first time Lambertson had been investigated for child abuse, either. Investigators found she\u2019d been charged in New York in 2006 with endangering the welfare of a child, burglary, trespass, harassment and possession of controlled substances with intent to sell, according to search warrants.<\/p>\n A July 2006 newspaper clipping from a paper in Syracuse, New York, states the then-20-year-old Lambertson was arrested on those charges June 24, 2006, though it\u2019s not clear what the ultimate disposition of the case was.<\/p>\n Durham investigators found Lambertson and her children were indeed living in a trailer, which they described as \u201cextremely unsanitary and unfit for human occupancy,\u201d search warrants state. The children also did not appear to be attending school.<\/p>\n Read more Looking for weekend plans? Carolina Blaze plays series at DBAP<\/a><\/p>\n A judge granted a request this month for police to place a pole camera facing Lambertson\u2019s camper, according to search warrants. Investigators saw Lambertson, her children and \u201cvarious adult men\u201d coming and going from the trailer on multiple occasions.<\/p>\n But when police arrived at the camper June 10 to arrest Lambertson and execute a search warrant, neither she nor her children were there, according to court documents. The camper\u2019s owner, a family member of Lambertson\u2019s, told police she\u2019d been living there for over a year, but he\u2019d asked her to leave after \u201congoing disturbances and safety concerns.\u201d The family member provided an address for where she might be staying.<\/p>\n Investigators found Lambertson and her children at that address the same day and arrested her, according to search warrants. Police seized at least two bags containing lingerie, documents of Lambertson\u2019s and two phones.<\/p>\n In addition to the accusations of allowing men to sexually assault her child, Lambertson is also accused of allowing her children to be exposed to crack cocaine; at least one child is believed to have consumed crack, arrest warrants indicate.<\/p>\n A day later, a second arrest tied to Lambertson\u2019s came when Kevin Matthew Bledsoe, 36, of Clayton was charged with multiple sex offenses against children, court records show.<\/p>\n It\u2019s not clear how Bledsoe may have known Lambertson, but court documents refer to the pair as co-defendants, and Bledsoe is charged with sexually assaulting and physically assaulting one of Lambertson\u2019s children.<\/p>\n Bledsoe is on probation out of Virginia until February 2030 related to a drug conviction, according to court records. A magistrate described him as having a \u201csignificant record,\u201d including prior convictions of felony cruelty to animals and other misdemeanor drug convictions.<\/p>\n Newspaper articles indicate<\/a> Bledsoe locked two dogs in a storage unit in Dumfries, Virginia, without food and water and tried to dump their bodies in May 2017. He was arrested again<\/a> in April 2023 in Stafford County, Virginia, on allegations he\u2019d been driving a stolen vehicle under the influence with three other adults and two children inside.<\/p>\n It appears Bledsoe moved to North Carolina in April 2025, when he registered his out-of-state probation with local officials, court records show. It\u2019s not clear how investigators tied him to Lambertson.<\/p>\n Lambertson and Bledsoe remained in the Durham County jail without bail as of Tuesday afternoon. Lambertson\u2019s children are in CPS custody, according to court documents.<\/p>\n