'My Daddy Sold Me for Crack'

Albuquerque Journal | Tuesday, February 24, 2004 | Katie Burford

[woofie]

A 35-year-old man is charged with child prostitution and kidnapping after his 15-year-old daughter told police he sold her for crack.

The man was arrested Saturday after the girl's mother reported the kidnapping to police. The Journal is withholding his name to protect the teen's privacy.

Police on Monday called the crime "despicable" and "heinous."

"It's a horrible thing that any parent would even consider putting their children in a position such as this," Albuquerque Police spokesman Jeff Arbogast said.

The girl told police she was walking home from a friend's house late Thursday when a car and a truck pulled up behind her. First her father got out of the truck, hugged her and said, "I love you." A large man then got out of the car and grabbed her.

"She tried to break free from the male by scratching and kicking him, but she was not able to get away," a criminal complaint filed in Metropolitan Court states.

They put her in the back of the car, and she said she saw her father walk up to a "skinny" man, who handed him a small packet.

"My daddy sold me for crack" the teen told police. The two men then drove off with her in the back, leaving her father. She told police she tried the doors but couldn't unlock them. She also tried to call her mother by cell phone, but one of the men took her phone.

They drove her to a parking lot, where she said she was sexually assaulted by both men.

"She tried to get away from both males, but in order to control her they would hit her in the face and head," the complaint reads.

At one point, she was knocked unconscious. When she woke up, she was lying behind a garbage bin with her shirt off and jacket torn, the complaint reads. Still dazed, she walked toward her home where she made contact with a neighbor, who got in touch with the teen's mother. Her mother called police.

The girl, whose face was swollen, agreed to a medical exam. Investigators noted the word "bitch" was written on both of her arms. The complaint did not give further details.

Police spokesman Arbogast said Monday that detectives had worked through the weekend on the case and were following any leads that might identify the two men.

He said he'd known of many cases in which parents had acted irresponsibly toward their children. But this one, he said, is particularly appalling "with not only the physical damage that they exposed their child to, (but) the psychological impact that something like this would have for years to come, if not their entire life."

The girl's father is charged with sexual exploitation of children by prostitution, kidnapping and conspiracy to commit kidnapping.

He remained in the Metropolitan Detention Center on Monday. Bond is set at $200,000 cash or surety.

[HEY4QDEMS]

Every time I hear an prohibition argument I mentally replace the word "drugs" with "guns"

Do you know people who are addicted to mind altering, mood altering "guns"?

[Phantom Lord]

No gov't intervention in any activity.

That is just false.

No Judeo-Christian moral absolutes.

We have that now?!?!

[thoughtomator]

The argument that people can't responsibly handle them (guns/drugs, pick one) without the government to nanny state over them is precisely the same.

[Phantom Lord]

Prostitution is sex and commerce. Which are you against?

[hosepipe]

[ A 35-year-old man is charged with child prostitution and kidnapping after his 15-year-old daughter told police he sold her for crack. ]

In Islamic countrys they sell their kids cracks for MONEY...
No Islamic country even keeps records of child abuse...
Actually most countrys in this world don't even resister abuse statistics of any kind.. Let alone reliable statistics..

[MD_Willington_1976]

You're too nice...Set him in chains outside the courthouse with his crime written on a placard...doubt he would live through the night...

[Rifleman]

You called?

My addiction is under control, but ain't nothing more mood altering than burning up a few hundred rounds shooting clay birds, water filled pop bottles, varmints, dirt clods or paper targets.

As to legal drugs, the scumbag daddy in question would get his crack the same place he gets his smokes if crxp was legal. Let the junkies cull themselves from the gene pool and in a generation or two the problem will be under control. Not fixed, human problems are not like that, but controlled.

Legalization could hardly work worse than prohibition has.

[HEY4QDEMS]

This is about as mind altering as it gets. I'm hooked, but not addicted.

[jimt]

...and protection of rights is a legitimate role of government, IMO

Hey, don't let facts and logic get in the way of a good slur on libertarians ! Especially by self-righteous moral authoritarians who can't tell the difference between rape and drug use.

[Androcles]

Do you know people who are addicted to mind altering, mood altering "guns"?

I have to confess that whenever my hands closed about a shotgun, my personality underwent distinct changes from my normal persona...often making all the cute woodland critters flee for the hills.

[Dead Corpse]

Imagine how this story would read if libertarians ruled:

Headline would have read, "15 year old girl shoots attempted rapists. Files lawsuite against father for violation of her sovereign Rights. Father killed during duel with a concerned bystander."

[HEY4QDEMS]

I know people who are addicted to the mind altering, mood altering drug alcohol.

Actually this is a much closer and sensible comparison to drugs than guns are. I generally have no problem with 'apples to oranges', it's 'apples to crocodiles' that bother me.

If you wish to use alcohol as a benchmark for legalizing drugs, I may or may not agree, but you would have a much better shot (pun intended) at making a resonable argument.

[HEY4QDEMS]

resonable = reasonable

[thoughtomator]

I'm afraid you underestimate the willingness of the gun-banners to lie, cheat, and distort to get their way.

Either we stick to a principled stand of treating Americans like responsible people, or we spiral down the drain of government control and dependence.

If you cannot trust someone to make judgements and be responsible for their own personal integrity, on what basis would you give that person the ability to kill another human being, or many other human beings?

[HEY4QDEMS]

Should we make that drug illegal?




Burrrp!.. Nope.

[Junior]

So, did he get a good deal?

[Junior]

Drug use is victimless. The white slavery part was the crime with a victim. Nothing forces a drug user to commit a crime to support his habit -- he still has a choice, and this guy obviously made a wrong one.

[HEY4QDEMS]

I'm afraid you underestimate the willingness of the gun-banners to lie, cheat, and distort to get their way.

I'm a card carrying member of the NRA and read 'America's 1st Freedom' from cover to cover. I'm well aware of the gun-banners tactics.