Ummm, no.
Posted on 05/09/2008 3:34:24 AM PDT by Zakeet
TYLER, Texas — A jury again needed just four minutes Thursday to convict an organizer of an East Texas swinger's club where prosecutors say young children were forced to perform sexual acts for an audience.
Shauntel Mayo, 29, faces life in prison after being found guilty on charges that she forced three siblings, ages 7 through 10, to have sex with each other or perform sexual acts for club members who paid to watch.
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Took them 4 minutes to calm the gag reflex and to restrain jurors 4 and 6 from going out to the truck and getting their guns.
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Per the links Kemp is a Texas Ranger who was contacted by someone in the DA's office. The Swinger's Club was located in Mineola.
Rhetorical: Am I the only one who thinks there should be a very extensive and deep investigation into the Mineola Police Department? Thank God Texas still has the Rangers and apparently it still only takes one Ranger.
TYLER - Children testified against their own mother Wednesday, in the so-called "Mineola Swinger's Club" trial at the Smith County Courthouse.
Inside that 'club', which was a rented-out business that ironically once served as a daycare and hospital, 29-year-old Shauntel Mayo and five others are accused of running an operation that forced young children to dance and perform sexual skits for food.
Five of the children are now in custody and three of them are Mayo's kids.
Texas Ranger Phillip Kemp, the lead investigator in the case, testified today that he believes that at least 15 more kids 'performed' at the "Mineola Swinger's Club" - but the investigation to locate them continues.
In March and less than 10 minutes after deliberating, a Smith County jury found Mayo's live-in boyfriend, 36-year-old Jaime Pittman, guilty of aggravated sexual assault of a child and he was sentenced to life behind bars.
At the times the alleged assaults took place in 2005, the defendant's children were a five-year-old girl, six-year-old boy and seven-year-old girl. The sibling's aunt and defendant's sister, who was also six-years- old, also testified she was forced to dance and have sex with the other children.
Late Wednesday afternoon, three young children and one teenager, took the stand and answered questions about Mayo's involvement in the case.
"We learned to strip (at 'kindergarten')," said the seven-year-old. " I had to touch my privates with my sister's and brother's privates for the people in the club."
The little boy testified about stripping for an audience that paid money to watch.
KETK does not identify sexual assault victims nor the new parents of these children.
According to the adoptive mother's testimony, three years removed from the sex ring, the kids still suffer extreme behavioral, emotional and physical problems.
One after another, the children described in graphic detail of a place they dubbed 'kindergarten.'
At 'kindergarten,' they said they learned how to strip, dance and perform sexual acts. First on dolls, then on each other. They also testified about 'silly pills.' Those pills were what each kid described they were given before going on stage. Prosecutors testified that the pills were likely Vicodin.
Upon "graduating" from 'kindergarten' the children said they moved on to "perform" at the club. After patrons paid a fee to get in, the kids say they had sexual contact with other children in front of an audience - including siblings and family members.
Jury members -- six men and four women -- cried as the kids testified. The children would not look at their mother until prosecutors asked them to identify and article of clothing she was wearing. Mayo sobbed upon seeing her kids and hearing the recollection of the events that took place, allegedly, in her care.
The children were adopted by a 60-year-old woman and man who said they have served as foster parents for 37 years.
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The face of evil!
Also the people who belonged to that "club" should be arrested as well for anything related to endangerment of children, etc. etc. etc. Throw the book at them!
Ummm, no.
LOL!
How could a club like this operate and who were the patrons of the club?
Looks like an ugly Susan Dey or maybe Susan Dey on crack.
Her name is Shauntel? If you didn’t see her, you would guess by that name that she is black. And she kind of looks like one of those po’ white trash types that go on “The Jerry Springer Show” and say she wishes she was black and tries to talk and act like blacks.
Geeze
susie
An FLDS Swingers Club?
Words fail me. She sobbed. Only because she got caught.
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Kickbacks or patrons.
I’m with you.
Glad there are still juries with common sense in this world.
“get several for each and every audience member as well.”
Totally agree.
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