Posted on 05/09/2025 4:27:21 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
This column is about the assault of girls and women. It’s also about a criminal justice system that hits and misses.
If federal sentencing guidelines had been followed, you probably would not be reading today about Linwood Barnhill Jr., a convicted sex offender who dirtied his D.C. police badge when he enticed two teenage girls into the prostitution racket that he operated out of his Southeast Washington apartment in 2013. Federal sentencing guidelines recommended nine to 12 years for the counts of pandering of a minor for prostitution and possession of child pornography that he pleaded guilty to. Barnhill, however, negotiated a seven-year plea agreement with the U.S. attorney’s office. He served his shortened sentence, and thus was released from federal custody five years ago to return to the District, where he allegedly engaged with the sex trafficking of children.
On Tuesday, Barnhill was charged and jailed once again.
Had Barnhill still been behind bars last year (as he could, and should, have been), young lives would be different today, based on the details of police and court documents. A 15-year-old girl would not have met the man introduced to her as “Nico” (Barnhill, according to court papers), who allegedly induced her to perform lap dances and have sex with men. She wouldn’t have been beaten and raped for not bringing in enough money, according to police. Another 15-year-old girl would not have worked as a recruiter for Nico, getting girls to come to her house where he “would pick them up … and put them on the corner to work in commercial sex,” according to court filings.
Would there have been other Nicos out and about to fill the roles allegedly played by Barnhill in this case? Perhaps. But Barnhill, had he not been offered the...
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Um…. Colbert King is still alive?!
And just whom does he blame for this felon being let loose to prey again?
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