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.

Bill To Bar Sex Offenders From Social Networking Sites

Attorney General Andrew Cuomo and other lawmakers are planning on introducing a new bill to keep sex offenders off the social networking sites, Myspace and Facebook:

The law would require all registered sex offenders to submit any e-mail addresses and other Internet identifiers, such as screen names used for instant messaging, to the State Division of Criminal Justice Services within 10 days of their creation, just as with their home addresses.

The bill also would allow the state to share the e-mail addresses with sites like Facebook and MySpace. Officials with both companies have agreed to check their databases against the lists provided by the state. If the addresses match, the companies said that they would terminate the users’ accounts and alert the authorities. When setting up accounts with the sites, users must submit valid e-mail addresses.

Although this bill is not 100% foolproof, it is a step in the right direction. The next bill that should be introduced needs to contain provisions where convicted felons, who engage in online scams, are banned from the social networking sites.

For example, Stan "Pampy" Barre, III, a convicted felon had his Myspace page deleted when the site realized that he was impersonating a famous rapper. That however, did not stop Stan "Pampy" Barre, III. He just started using the site again under another account. Social networking sites need to institute provisions that ban people, like Mr. Barre from using their sites since he used the social networking site, Myspace, to lure an underage person into engaging in drinking.

Morial confidant to plead guilty on tax charge

Lawyer Roy Rodney, a member of former Mayor Marc Morial's inner circle whose business dealings have been under federal scrutiny for years, has agreed to plead guilty to a single misdemeanor charge of failure to file income tax returns, sources close to the probe said.

The sources said the deal does not represent a major break in the government's investigation, which began in 2002 and has revolved around contracts awarded by the Morial administration. Rather, it likely means the government is starting to wrap up loose ends in the inquiry.

Rodney, who has been living in Houston since Hurricane Katrina, figured prominently in the probe: He was a partner in numerous ventures with restaurateur and fellow Morial pal Stan "Pampy" Barre. Some of those deals, ranging from parking-lot contracts to landfill management, were described in a "counter letter" that became public in the government's separate but related probe of the city's massive energy contract with Johnson Controls Inc.

Barre wound up pleading guilty to three felony counts in that case, and has cooperated since with investigators, providing information that led to the subsequent bribery conviction of then-City Council President Oliver Thomas. Barre has also told the feds he delivered bribes from two local trash haulers to banker Dave Anderson in exchange for a promise that Anderson's wife, Orleans Parish School Board member Una Anderson, would steer a garbage-pickup contract to the pair.

But while Barre was facing a likely sentence of about nine years in prison, Rodney is likely to escape with probation, the sources said. His plea deal is not contingent on him providing useful information to investigators, the sources said, and he is not expected to do so.

No charges have been filed against either of the Andersons or either of the two trash haulers, Jimmie Woods of Metro Disposal Inc. and Alvin Richard of Richard's Disposal Inc.
Eddie Castaing, Rodney's lawyer, said he had no comment about the plea deal.

U.S. Attorney Jim Letten did not return a call seeking comment.

Operation Lucky Bag - good idea or not?

There has been criticism concerning the Operation Lucky Bag. As a result of said criticism, police noted that there are six types of behavior by suspects in the Lucky Bag operation:

Opening the bag and rifling through the contents; removing money or other items; removing valuables and discarding the bag; hiding the bag; denying to an undercover officer that they had found the items; and displaying “furtive behavior” to see if they were being observed.

But what if they meet a psychopath? When Stan "Pampy" Barre, III went on his crime spree, he pretended to be a police officer after getting caught. How would New Yorkers deal with a psychopath like Stan "Pampy" Barre, III?