We’re bringing this story to the top again, seeing as how the rest of the media world has finally latched on to it:

NEW BRAUNFELS, Texas – A former porn star was awarded custody of her 3-year-old daughter, but the judge added one condition: that she not make any more adult movies.

Judge Charles Stephens acknowledged that he faced a difficult decision in arriving at Wednesday’s ruling.

The mother, Laura Carney, has made several pornographic movies, and is known on film as Barbi Korvette, Slavegirl and Dmii Darkangel. The father, Patrick Carney, admitted that he attended clubs where his wife performed, sold her merchandise, viewed pornography on the Internet and hired prostitutes.

The judge said he had to award custody to “someone who is an admitted porn entertainer (or) someone who was involved in porn, viewed it and can’t remember the last time he’s hired a prostitute.”

Laura Carney, 35, accused her husband of pressuring her into the porn industry then using her past against her. She left him in 2001.

Patrick Carney, a financial services worker, said he had little involvement in his wife’s work and now teaches Sunday school at his church

Back story: San Antonio – One woman found fame and fortune as an erotic model on the Internet is at the center of a child custody hearing in Comal County.

Thirty-five-year-old Laura Carney is known as “Barbi Korvette,” “Slave Girl,” and Demi Darkgirl,” in the adult entertainment world is fighting for custody of her 3-year-old daughter.

Carney was in court Tuesday for the custody battle with her husband of four years, Patrick Carney.

Their child is currently staying with Laura Carney’s friends.

The ex-porn model admits posing in plenty of lewd and distasteful pictures and short films over a two-year period. She claims her husband, Patrick, pushed her into it.

Both admit to drug and alcohol abuse, but say it is a thing of the past. Both say they have been clean for the past year since they separated.

Explicit pictures were introduced in court Tuesday and are expected to be used as evidence.

The case continues Wednesday. The judge has ruled the couple’s daughter must be flown in from Indiana to be in the judge’s jurisdiction until this hearing ends.