Posted on 02/07/2005 9:23:20 PM PST by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
CLEVELAND -- Four people convicted of leading a 13-year-old girl into prostitution were in court Monday to face their sentence, reported NewsChannel5's Joe Pagonakis.
The young victim, who is now 15, explained how her life went terribly wrong.
She was just 13 years old when Anthony Freeman (pictured, right) promoted her as a prostitute. Freeman was sentenced to four years in prison on four counts of promoting prostitution.
Katlin Sender was convicted of being the girl's chauffeur, and was sentenced to two years probation.
Police said Sender would drive the juvenile to locations like Cleveland's downtown Holiday Inn.
The 13-year-old was paid $180 for a half hour by men like Cecil King, who tried to fight back tears as he was given three years probation for compelling prostitution.
The teenager cried when she learned that King would not get jail time.
Police said King found the ad for the escort service in Scene Magazine.
The young girl had advice for other girls: "Please do not do what I did because it's a frightening thing to do … they could rape you, they could do anything to you."
The 15-year-old is receiving counseling. She said she turned to a life of prostitution because she didn't have a father figure while growing up.
Her father spent seven years in jail, and when she had a falling out with her mother she says she had nowhere else to turn.
There is a fourth person in this case, Michelle Langer, who will be sentenced next month.
I was watching an Oprah show or was it Montell? Anyway it was a talkshow about parents who have 'modeling' websites for their children. When the host pointed out that most of the young girl's subscribers were middle aged men, the parents were pretty ignorant. One girl took pics in clothes the men sent her,etc. Some parents are really braindead.
Oh, yes, those are the websites I was thinking of! Grrrr, it's only 8:39, no breakfast, and I already had to take a Pepcid.
This is the world we live in. I think people who have children today should be given a medal.
No kidding. I have a theory that civilization is inherently self-limiting because as technology and prosperity increases, the effort it takes to raise good kids increases as well, and we're hitting that ceiling in the next few decades.
You have real problems I hope you didn't pass to your children.
But not always a 13 yr old.
So a 15 year old is different. Do you think the age of consent should be one day past a girls 15th birthday?
You have real problems I hope you didn't pass to your children.-nov3
So you are a shrink? I reqard your post with about as much disdain as possible. You make blanket statements, but yours are different, how?
Maybe we aren't reading the same article. We certainly aren't on the same page...
M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-EEEEEEEEEEEE!
Age of Reason
The name given to that period of human life at which persons are deemed to begin to be morally responsible. This, as a rule, happens at the age of seven, or thereabouts, though the use of reason requisite for moral discernment may come before, or may be delayed until notably after, that time. At this age Christians come under the operation of ecclesiastical laws, such as the precept of assistance at Mass on Sundays and holydays, abstinence from meat on certain days, and annual confessions, should they have incurred mortal sin. The obligation of Easter Communion literally understood applies to all who have reached "the years of discretion"; but according to the practical interpretation of the Church it is not regarded as binding children just as soon as they are seven years old. At the age of reason a person is juridically considered eligible to act as witness to a marriage, as sponsor at baptism or confirmation, and as a party to the formal contract of betrothal; at this age one is considered capable of receiving extreme unction, of being promoted to first tonsure and minor orders, of being the incumbent of a simple benefice (beneficium simplex) if the founder of it should have so provided; and, lastly, is held liable to ecclesiastical censures. In the present discipline, however, persons do not incur these penalties until they reach the age of puberty, unless explicitly included in the decree imposing them. The only censure surely applicable to persons of this age is for the violation of the clausura of nuns, while that for the maltreatment, suadente diabolo, of clerics is probably so.
More simply...
That time of life at which one begins to distinguish clearly between right and wrong, to have a sense of obligation, and to incur moral responsibility; it is generally about the age of seven.
New Catholic Dictionary
...It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying has produced in society. When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime. He takes up the trade of a priest for the sake of gain, and in order to qualify himself for that trade, he begins with a perjury. Can we conceive any thing more destructive to morality than this?... -Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason...
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Yeah it is great for posting non sequitors when your argument is wholly indefensible.
As long as you are posting Vatican material(out of context) I suppose you read the Vatican's recent edict on the child sex trade? If not you really ought to. It is posted here. I saw it a few weeks ago.
Your anger toward this girl really show a deep sickness. That is not an attack, that is truly how I feel. This girl had a convict for a father and God knows what for a mother. Whatever her mother was it was bad enough for 13 year old girl to go out, alone, on the street. People like those above saw a weak, defenseless, hungry creature and they preyed on it. She didn't do it for the "money" as you vapidly said. She had nowhere to go. Your knee jerk reaction is to BLAME THE 13 YEAR OLD VICTIM. The sickness in that is indescribable. It is people like you that make me cringe when I hear myself described as a religious Catholic conservative.
Go talk to your priest and ask him if this girl is a victim here. She has sinned and needs to confess but she was used by predators and what happened to her was horrible. Any of the children God gave you could have been born into her situation and you would have a spiteful attitude toward them. Know when you are Graced. It is spitting in God's face when you ignore it.
Get help, you both need it.
Get Help
Whatever her mother was it was bad enough for 13 year old girl to go out, alone, on the street.
Mom might have said "no"! Having "successfully raised" four children, and currently working toward properly preparing my now 15 yr old daughter, I know a little about girls, and children. I studied psychology and counseling in school. I saw my own children to maturity, and monitored those whom they spent time with. They went to church on sunday night, rather than spending time at the mall, or some roller rink. They still honor their father and mother, though we are separated and divorced.
Yet, I continue to see children getting into the adult world before they should be. I don't condone the behavior of the purveyors. I think they got off too lightly. But, to just assume that all little 13 yr olds are incapable of degradation, I only tell you to watch your MTV! They are teaching them well!
Good ole Cleveland again.
I don't think I am the one in need of help!
get help
You are. Definitely
If The Scene in Cleveland is anything like the one in Nashville (weekly free liberal rag), I'm not surprised the paper was accepting these kinds of ads.
In Nashville the paper's top ad guy was arrested for this very offense. They charged him with aiding and abeiting prostitution among other things.
This can't be a coincidence. Of course the paper's editor "knew nothing".
Typical liberals - lying sex fiends.
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