Thursday, January 31, 2008

13 Year Old Girl Kept As Prostitute

When I first read this story, I had to do a double take. It reminded me a little about convicted felon, Stan "Pampy" Barre, III, who bragged to an informant that he had a prostitute working for him. It was later revealed that Stan "Pampy" Barre, III was the one who was servicing the prostitute. According to the source and the prostitute, Mr. Barre performed the oral sex acts on the prostitute for free. The following news story, from the NY-Times, makes Stan "Pampy" Barre, III tale of prostitution seem like child's play:

A police detective and his female companion kidnapped a 13-year-old runaway girl and forced her into prostitution with 20 men at private parties.The detective, Wayne Taylor, 35, and his companion, Zalika Brown, 29, of 173-37 Vaswani Avenue in Jamaica, were charged with kidnapping, unlawful imprisonment, endangering the welfare of a child and promoting prostitution. They were arraigned in Queens Criminal Court on Wednesday night and pleaded not guilty.

The girl left her home in Brooklyn on Jan. 10 and encountered someone identified only as Drama who offered to find her a job dancing at parties and introduced her to Ms. Brown. Ms. Brown told the girl that she had been “purchased” for $500 for use as a prostitute and introduced Detective Taylor as her husband, the police said, although they described the couple as boyfriend and girlfriend.

Detective Taylor, a 14-year-member of the Police Department assigned to the Housing Bureau, who was suspended without pay upon his arrest, set prices of $40 for oral sex and $80 for intercourse and instructed the girl to give her age as 19, investigators said.

The girl was taken to a party in a barbershop, where she was forced to have sex for money that was then turned over to the suspects, the police said. That routine was repeated in the following days as the couple drove her and other prostitutes to other parties in Queens, Manhattan and Brooklyn, investigators said.

At one point, the suspects complained that the girl was not earning enough money, the police said, and Ms. Brown slammed the girl’s head to the floor and other prostitutes hit her. Detective Taylor threatened the girl that if she did not earn more, he would force her into streetwalking, the police said.

The girl escaped from the couple a few days ago and went to a police station, investigators said. She was able to provide the address where she said she was held, they added. She has since returned to her family, they said.


Maybe if Stan "Pampy" Barre, III had charged the prostitute for oral sex instead of performing oral sex on the prostitute for free, he would not have become the laughing stock of New Orleans, Louisiana and Federal Way, Washington.

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