A mother faces a lifetime behind bars after selling her 6-year-old daughter to her rorikon friend so he could r**e and sodomise her; he also faces life.
A jury found the 48-year-old Kansas woman and her 51-year-old male accomplice guilty of two countsof violation and one of aggravated criminal sodomy.
She was found to have sold her daughter to the man for a paltry $6, with him having sex with the girl eight times. She is said to have then spent the money on whiskey and cigarettes.
The girl, now 7, took the stand in order to answer questions about her ordeal; though the defence argued she was merely telling tales in order to escape a poor home life where she was deprived of proper food and clothing, or even a bed, jurors were convinced and opted to convict.
The pair face a minimum of a 25 year sentence, with life a possibility.
Via KansasCity.com.
Even if the girl was lying they should still convict them. “the defence argued she was merely telling tales in order to escape a poor home life where she was deprived of proper food and clothing, or even a bed…” That is still child abuse and you know if she spent the money on drugs then she’s a junkie.
It should be every mothers right to sell her daughter.
wtf?!
The $6 sounds suspicious. A fifth of whiskey OR a carton of cigarettes costs a lot more than that. Young girls have been known to lie before: Anybody remember reading about the Salem Witch Hunts, or that day care fiasco a few years back?
However, in this case, it’s almost certainly true. The girl’s story gains a lot of credibility when you read the last couple of lines of the original story:
“Two older sisters, now in their 20s, told authorities that their mother had also provided them to Stafford for sex when they were pre-teens and teenagers.”
She probably got the amount that her mother was charging the old pervert wrong, but the rest of it rings true.
But the fact that the people in this case are probably guilty doesn’t mean that there isn’t a huge problem with public defenders: You’re about as well off just defending yourself, rather than some bozo showing up 10 minutes before the trial starts and advising you to plead guilty of whatever you’ve been charged with, without even bothering to read what the charge is. A local PD was charging $250K per year to do the PD work for the county. But that was just one of his jobs. He was a full-time probate judge, and was coaching little league in the afternoons. If he had to actually defend anybody, it would have cut into his other jobs. There were days that he “defended” as many as 60 people and still managed to make it to little league practice at 3. He was finally fired after a TV news story exposed how much he was making on the side as a PD while receiving a full-time salary as a judge, but the replacement was even worse.
In other words, if you don’t have the money to hire a lawyer, it doesn’t even matter whether you’re guilty or not, you’re going to jail. For a very long time. That’s how we’ve managed to expand the prison population from 400,000 to nearly 3 million in just a couple of decades.
While I have problems with the mother selling the girl, I don’t have problems with the sex in itself in this case.