http://www.ottawasun.com/2014/01/29/tee ... -wednesdayShe traded in human flesh.And she had no shortage of willing buyers.The pimp's panel of pervert johns eagerly awaited her latest wares.She even supplied a catalogue of fresh flesh, texting images of nude and semi-nude teens to tantalize her cellphone Rolodex of creeps, who were blind or indifferent to the fear and terror etched on those young faces.
The girl, 17 now but only 15 when she began building her underage sex ring, began to sob in the prisoner's box as Judge Diane Lahaie warmed to her grim narration.Lahaie showed her the same mercy the girl showed to her victims -- six in all -- piling up convictions with the ruthless efficiency of a pool shark on a hot run.Guilty of human trafficking and sexual assault.
Guilty of luring and procuring.Guilty of forcible confinement.Guilty of making and distributing child pornography.Guilty, in short, of just about every sadistic and selfish act she used to force girls as young as 13 into brutal bouts of sexual servitude.
The pimp's first victim was known to her as "biggie" and "retard."The girl, 18 and developmentally-delayed when she was nearly recruited on Easter weekend in 2012, was videotaped as the pimp tried to pressure her to "work" in Montreal.She managed to duck the invitation.The next victim wasn't nearly so lucky.
On May 18, 2012, the 17-year-old met the ringleader and her lieutenant at a mall. They slathered her and photographed her naked. The ringleader sent out her photos to johns -- one found the girl "yummy."She was sent out with a man named Joseph Donnelly, whose number was in the ringleader's phone under the name "trick."Donnelly was only too pleased to meet her.He dressed her in a pink bikini and raped her, the court heard.
DNA evidence linked Donnelly to the crime and Lahaie said she was left "in no doubt" that Donnelly was the perp.(He has yet to stand trial). But she'd only made $180 and so the pimps told her her "evening wasn't over."The ringleader's mother -- no stranger to the justice system -- had just one thing to say when she saw the teen."Get that slut out of my house," she said.
The next john took pity on her and sent her home in a cab.
On May 30, 2012, a 16-year-old girl fell into the pimp's clutches.The ringleader and the two other pimps -- who were the ringleader's co-accused but who pleaded guilty midtrial -- took her to a car with two johns.The girl tried to flee but got punched in the face for her troubles. Still stunned, two of the pimps seized her arms and frog-marched her into the waiting car.Once at the john's flat, she had the wit to claim that her monthly visitor precluded sex.
But fearing her violent captors she gave the john fellatio.She returned home in tears.Two days later, the ringleader got a 15- and 14-year-old girl drunk. The older girl she stripped and attacked; the younger girl passed out in a bathtub. Both were photographed nude, "either to secure their silence or to lower their resistance to (the ringleader's) demands," the judge found.* * *The youngest victim, just 13, thought she was going to a sleepover on June 2, 2012.
But she wouldn't need the fuzzy teddy bear pyjamas she'd carefully packed, because the pimps had johns and a skimpy white dress waiting for her.The first john spared her and her quick thinking got her out of a second appointment: She ducked around the corner of an apartment building and pretended the perv hadn't been there to meet her.But a man in a white BMW cared little for her age -- he'd paid for pleasure and he was going to get it. She used her mouth to satisfy him and returned to the pimps.At another flat a man said he'd throw her off a balcony if she didn't have sex with him.
She told him to kill her and "get it over with."In court, the girl's mother held her tight.Neither had been able to discuss the traumatic events with each other as both were witnesses.And the young girl's ordeal was made worse when she was cross-examined on her diary -- a final violation, a last indignity.Outside the court, her mother praised detectives Kelly Lyle and Carolyn Botting but said she was "even more broken than I was.""I couldn't protect my daughter," she said through tears.
The Crown will seek to have the teen flesh-peddler sentenced as an adult. If successful, she will face a mandatory minimum sentence of five years in prison.But the sentence the girl imposed on her victims will last a lifetime.
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Abdi "Somali girls have no shame" Johnson
