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Apr 1, 2010
Teen sold stepsister for sex
TRENTON (New Jersey) - A 15-YEAR-OLD New Jersey girl set up her 7-year-old stepsister to have sex with as many as seven men and boys at a weekend party near their home and also accepted money for herself, police said. Trenton police Captain Joseph Juniak said on Wednesday that the older girl started by taking money to have sex with several men at a party in a high-rise apartment. The teen then gave some of the money she had collected to the younger girl to let the men start touching her, Capt Juniak said.
'It went from touching to straight out assault and rape,' Capt Juniak said. 'They threatened to kill her if she screamed or told anyone.' The child later put on her clothes and left the apartment; her sister stayed. Two women found the child crying outside the apartment and walked her home. The teen is charged with aggravated sexual assault, promoting prostitution and other crimes. Her name was not released because of her age. She was being held in a juvenile detention facility.
A spokesman for the county prosecutor's office, Casey DeBlasio, said prosecutors would seek to have the teen tried as an adult. Police believe as many as a dozen people were at the party. They are trying to track down the men and boys who attended and additional arrests are expected. Police said the girls were outside Sunday afternoon in the neighbourhood when the 15-year-old ran into two young men she knew who invited her to a party at the apartment. Rather than leave the 7-year-old behind, the teen took her along. -- AP
Apr 1, 2010
Teen sold stepsister for sex
TRENTON (New Jersey) - A 15-YEAR-OLD New Jersey girl set up her 7-year-old stepsister to have sex with as many as seven men and boys at a weekend party near their home and also accepted money for herself, police said. Trenton police Captain Joseph Juniak said on Wednesday that the older girl started by taking money to have sex with several men at a party in a high-rise apartment. The teen then gave some of the money she had collected to the younger girl to let the men start touching her, Capt Juniak said.
'It went from touching to straight out assault and rape,' Capt Juniak said. 'They threatened to kill her if she screamed or told anyone.' The child later put on her clothes and left the apartment; her sister stayed. Two women found the child crying outside the apartment and walked her home. The teen is charged with aggravated sexual assault, promoting prostitution and other crimes. Her name was not released because of her age. She was being held in a juvenile detention facility.
A spokesman for the county prosecutor's office, Casey DeBlasio, said prosecutors would seek to have the teen tried as an adult. Police believe as many as a dozen people were at the party. They are trying to track down the men and boys who attended and additional arrests are expected. Police said the girls were outside Sunday afternoon in the neighbourhood when the 15-year-old ran into two young men she knew who invited her to a party at the apartment. Rather than leave the 7-year-old behind, the teen took her along. -- AP
