Wednesday, April 13, 2005

Bobo's World (or Brer Bush's)

Mom accused of selling sex with daughter, trading another for car.
OKEECHOBEE -- A mother is under arrest, accused of selling a 12-year-old daughter into prostitution and trading a 14-year-old daughter for a car.

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The youngest girl and her mother were living out of their car, and the prostitution was for food and an occasional shower at the men's homes, according to a report by Okeechobee County Sheriff's Office Detective K.J. Ammons.

The youngest daughter is three months pregnant, the report said, and the girl was 11 when her mother first forced her to have sex with a man. She charged $20 for the sex.

The older daughter refused to be used as a prostitute and was sold for a car, deputies contend.

"She was sold to a man for a Mercury Cougar," Ammons said. "But he never gave the mother the vehicle."

Ammons said the car has an estimated value of $500 to $1,000....

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

A lot of oy there, E.

Eli said...

Yeah, tell me about it.

I'm just here to spread a little oy around.

scout prime said...

Makes you wonder how one gets to a point of selling their kids. That is cold.

oldwhitelady said...

So sad. Those poor children. It's disgusting the men would even think about buying sex from the girls. The mother has really created a hardship for her children. I wonder how she justifies it? The whole story is just horrible. Argghhhhh.

Eli said...

Shouldn't there be, I dunno, some kind of social support system in Florida?

Thers said...

Ah, Florida. Where there are no laws at all, of any sort. How I miss living there...