The Tyngsboro daycare center employee charged with creating pornographic images of the children she supervises has been released from federal custody.

“Briefly stated, the defendant’s release would pose a risk of danger to another or to the community but that risk can be sufficiently mitigated through a combination of conditions that can reasonably assure the safety of (sic) community,” U.S. Magistrate Judge Donald L. Cabell wrote in his Friday order.

Lindsay Groves, 38, of Hudson, N.H., was charged with sexual exploitation of children and distribution of child pornography by criminal complaint filed in federal court in Boston on June 22 and arrested that same day.

She is accused of taking nude photos of children around the ages of 3 to 5 years old she worked with at the Creative Minds daycare in Tyngsboro largely during naptimes and bathroom breaks for the sexual enjoyment of herself and her former romantic partner, former New Hampshire state representative Stacie Marie Laughton, 39, of Nashua, N.H., who identifies as a transgender woman.

The pair were indicted together on July 27 on four counts: three counts of sexual exploitation of children — aiding and abetting and one count of distribution of child pornography. They have each pleaded not guilty and had been held in New Hampshire state custody since their respective arraignments in federal court in Boston.

The feds claim the pair exchanged thousands of text messages between June 13 and June 16, the time period where the illicit images were purportedly exchanged.

In addition to the at least four images of purported child pornography — including at least one in which Groves allegedly fondles a little boy at Laughton’s insistence — the texts feature lots of sex chatter about hooking up with each other and others, including children, court documents allege.

While Judge Cabell in his Friday ruling concedes that “the weight of the evidence against the defendant is strong … the court finds that the conditions of release can be fashioned to address this risk and reasonably assure the safety of the community.

Cabell says the primary reasons for his decision are that Groves will live in the home of her parents, who can serve as third-party custodians, where no minors visit and that Groves “the defendant will not be able to access the internet or send text messages of a minor engaging in sexually explicit conduct to Laughton or anyone else.”