Forced smiles, dangling earrings and interesting fashion – these pictures look like typical family portraits from the mid-2000s.
But Peta Butler, 15, had no idea of the sick plot brewing in her mother Therese’s mind when she posed with her in these professional pictures in 2005.
Ms Butler has released these images to Daily Mail Australia because they are the only photos mother and daughter took together in the year that Therese took Peta on a ‘girl’s weekend’ to Toowoomba, Queensland, and arranged for Peta to be raped by a fat stranger known only as ‘Thommo’.
The pictures have been provided in the hope they may jog someone’s memory back to that terrible day long ago – and provide clues to her rapist’s identity.
Peta Butler (right, when she was about 15) has shared these photos of herself with her mother Therese during the same year she arranged her rape in a Toowoomba motel room
![It's hoped these pictures could jog a memory of a witness who may have seen Ms Butler in Toowoomba on the day she was sexually assaulted by a man known only as 'Thommo'](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/newpix/2018/03/08/23/4A05391000000578-0-image-a-4_1520552228296.jpg)
It’s hoped these pictures could jog a memory of a witness who may have seen Ms Butler in Toowoomba on the day she was sexually assaulted by a man known only as ‘Thommo’
Ms Butler, who is now 27, went public recently after her mother was finally jailed by a court in January for her heinous crime.
Peta only gathered the courage to go to police and elicit a recorded phone call confession from her mother in 2016.
Then, Therese was recorded saying: ‘It was still rape but you were 16. I wouldn’t let him touch you under 16, no way’.
The phone call led to Therese being charged in October 2016 and she was jailed for four years – in a sentence suspended after 12 months – in January.
But Therese clearly did not understand the gravity of her situation, online posts show.
She took to Facebook to whinge about being ostracized from her family in July 2017, posting a meme which said: ‘It is very sad when members of the same family do not talk to each other’.
‘The children suffer for the adult ego … Stop getting offended. Reunite with your family members.
‘One day, your imaginary conflict will all come to an end … with or without you.’
Butler then commented: ‘this is so damn true.
‘i know this because im going through this situation, only others can change this situation til then I wait…’
![Vile: Therese Butler, 47, has never apologised for the heinous assault she inflicted upon her daughter Peta - and now cops are hot on the trail of the man who did it](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/newpix/2018/03/08/23/4A05330F00000578-0-image-a-6_1520552255403.jpg)
Vile: Therese Butler, 47, has never apologised for the heinous assault she inflicted upon her daughter Peta – and now cops are hot on the trail of the man who did it
![Online posts showed Therese Butler clearly did not understand the gravity of her situation](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/newpix/2018/03/08/23/4A05331700000578-0-image-a-7_1520552272659.jpg)
Online posts showed Therese Butler clearly did not understand the gravity of her situation
Peta Butler broke her silence to Daily Mail Australia and other media outlets in recent months.
She revealed how that night in 2005, Therese plied her with drinks – four vodka cruisers and a bourbon mix – on a supposed ‘girl’s trip’ to Toowoomba.
Therese left her alone in the hotel room until Thommo arrived and blocked her from getting out.
‘He raped me,’ she told Tracy Grimshaw on Monday night’s A Current Affair .
‘It only lasted for a couple of minutes. But while he was raping me I had my head turned to the side and eyes closed while crying.
‘I felt his face stubble against my face. I still remember feeling that and I still remember the smell of him.’
!['So sad': Therese Butler moaned about how family members weren't talking to each other](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/newpix/2018/03/08/23/4A05331F00000578-5480099-image-m-10_1520552836406.jpg)
‘So sad’: Therese Butler moaned about how family members weren’t talking to each other
Her mother stayed outside the room.
‘I hoped she was going to come in and stop it,’ Peta, who is now 27, said.
‘She didn’t once try, she sat outside smoking.
![Peta Butler told A Current Affair her mother Therese went through a phase where she locked herself in a room to flirt with men on the internet. At one point, she organised daughter's rape](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/newpix/2018/03/08/23/4A05331300000578-0-image-a-8_1520552301460.jpg)
Peta Butler told A Current Affair her mother Therese went through a phase where she locked herself in a room to flirt with men on the internet. At one point, she organised daughter’s rape
‘She knew what was happening.
‘She might as well have murdered me on that day.
‘She took me to that place and premeditated the whole thing. That’s not a mother.’
Her mother then hugged her and told her everything was OK.
In January this year, Therese Butler hurled vile threats at her daughter as she was taken away to the cells – leaving Peta in fear for her family’s safety.