Wichita ? A Texas woman admitted on Monday that she sold her son’s birth certificate and Social Security card to a Kansas woman, in a plea deal that would spare her more jail time.

Maria de Jesus Soto pleaded guilty to a single count of selling the Social Security card in exchange for a recommendation from federal prosecutors that she be sentenced to time served and one year supervised release. U.S. District Judge Wesley Brown is not bound by that when he sentences her on April 11, but she would be allowed to withdraw her guilty plea if he rejects the agreement.

The 54-year-old Brownsville, Texas, woman is a U.S. citizen who was indicted last year on charges of illegal sale of a Social Security card, aggravated identity theft and possession of unlawfully obtained documents. The agreement calls for other charges to be dismissed at sentencing.

She has been out on bond after being briefly jailed following her arrest.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Brent Anderson cited the age of the case, and the defendant’s health conditions, for the prosecution’s decision to not seek prison time.

“Were Mrs. Soto not a U.S. citizen — if she was a foreign national — we would have sought jail time,” he said. “That is the only way to remove them from the United States.”

Soto’s defense attorney, Syovata Edari, declined to comment after the hearing.

Court documents allege that in August 2005, Soto sold her son’s identity documents to Veronica Rocio, who was then living in Arkansas City. Prosecutors alleged in other court filings that Soto also sold four additional sets of identification documents, although she was not charged in those instances.

Anderson said outside the courtroom that most of the document vendor cases prosecuted in Kansas typically have a connection to border communities.

“It is more troubling to us in the Midwest, but it doesn’t seem to be troubling to those who live in border towns,” he said of the sale of identification documents of family members.

Soto was paid $750 for her son’s documents, he said.

Anderson told the judge prosecutors would file a motion seeking to dismiss charges against Rocio.

Court documents filed in the case show Rocio has acted as a confidential informant for the government, which recorded some of the conversations over the sale of documents.