http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=29905 Pal allegedly prostituted r****ded teen By Dave Wedge Sunday, May 30, 2004 Brockton authorities have uncovered a disturbing junior high hooker ring in which a mildly r****ded 13-year-old girl allegedly was pimped out by her best friend for as little as $5, sources told the Herald. The eighth-grader, a developmentally delayed foster child, allegedly has been performing sex acts on junior high and high school students behind a bank and a supermarket, some of which may have been caught on surveillance videos. The girl's best friend, who is also an eighth-grade girl, allegedly set up the trysts, charging between $5 and $30, and pocketed all of the money, according to a source. "The girl who set it up - who was supposedly her friend - never gave her any money,'' the source said. The case came to light last week when two other eighth-grade girls told school officials the junior high madame tried to persuade them to go to work for her. Authorities believe the prostitution has been going on since April and involves as many as 20 boys. One alleged john, an 18-year-old Brockton High School student, could face criminal charges for allegedly assaulting the girl, the source said. The alleged madame reportedly convinced the girl to perform the sex acts by telling her it was the only way she could get boyfriends. The girl's foster parents have been notified and are working with investigators. The girl is still living with the family and has been put into counseling. The Department of Social Services and Plymouth District Attorney Tim Cruz's office have been notified, according to the source. DSS spokeswoman Denise Monteiro said last night that the agency had no information on the case but will investigate. Cruz also said he was unaware of the case. The case comes two months after a 15-year-old Boston prostitute ran away and was tracked down as she was preparing to flee to Las Vegas with a reputed pimp. The teen was picked up on sex-for-cash charges in Brockton in March but slipped out of court by using a fake name. Citing a surge in the number of teen girls falling into the flesh trade in the Bay State in recent years, DSS has set up a new prevention program called My Life, My Choice in four Boston-area schools. Of the estimated 1.2 million hookers in the United States, as many as 300,000 are believed to be children. The average age of first-time streetwalkers is between 13 and 16, according to a national study. Either times have changed or I was REALLY naive in junior high school.
That is just sad. Times have changed. i have a friend whose little brother is in 6th grade and was talking about some girl giving BJ's in the bathroom. It's just crazy. In 6th grade i was barely learning **** to an extent lol.
Anyone else a little disturbed that they had to point that out? What, if the girl was getting a cut it would have been ok?
They now have friends with benefits in JH and HS now. Apparently it's pretty easy to get one of these friends.
Geez, that's sick. Of course, it's probably sicker that I had to stop myself from writing a tasteless joke here.
No doubt. Our high school's star quarterback used to only charge a dollar fifty, but that was a long time ago.
You need to post more. Not because I love your posts, which I do, but because when you take breaks, you tend to come back charging wildly over the fine line between funny and strange that you usually tiptoe so well...
This is a disturbing case (and MacB, I agree with what you're saying about my returns after breaks), but I have a serious pair of questions here. 1. How would we feel if the "friend" was not "mildly r****ded?" If she was a "normal" 13-yr-old, how would we feel? 2. Is "mildly r****ded" a real condition? What is her real mental status? Maybe she is dyslexic and got held back a grade. I dunno. It's just weird and it really seems like the facts are not in. For the record, quarterback jokes aside, there were definitely kids getting and giving hummers on school property when I was in, say, 9th grade onward. I don't know if any money was involved; I didn't have any first-hand experience. I was too busy being a complete dork (studying) and going to basketball practice.
I asked that exact question. My roomies looked a little bewildered, coming, as it did, without explanation or preamble. Seriously, though, I did think that exact same thing. I think that the 'r****ded' factor ratchets up the sympathy, and possibly with reason. We tend to assume r****ded equates with helpless. I worked with developmentally handicapped adults for a couple of years, but they were severe cases who couldn't even speak, feed themselves, and had to wear diapers, so I tend to err on the same side of the line here, and assume that their characterization wouldn;t come without some lessening of ability to discern for herself what is in her interests. But it's also true that, were this stroy exactly the same, only r****ded were omitted, we'd be mostly talking about the lowering of societal values and the lack of morals of these two individuals, not one.
That's sick, but I can hear the middle school boys now: Huh...huh...we're gonna score.....huh..... Yeah....score.....score.........
