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Subscribe to RSSAuthorities have charged an Ohio woman with forcing her young daughter into prostitution.
Police say Jacqueline Toro-Williams, 37, forced the girl, who was between 11 and 12 years old at the time, to engage in sexual favors for money for more than a year before she ran away to Mexico.
Toro-Williams is facing felony charges of compelling prostitution and promoting prostitution. She's being held on $100,000 bond.
Capt. Daniel Zampelli of the Akron Police Department told msnbc.com that Toro-Williams began forcing the girl into prostitution near their neighborhood in 2007.
The girl confided to an acquaintance about what was happening and the person then helped her run away to Mexico. She left in 2008 and stayed with relatives of the acquaintance for four years until returning recently, Zampelli said.
"The acquaintance worked with her to get her away from her mother," he said.
Toro-Williams reported the girl missing and she was found earlier this year through the National Center for Missing Children.
Once the girl returned to Ohio she told police the reason she had left, Zampelli said. She's now 16 and living with a foster family.
"This is very unusual for our small northeastern Ohio town," Zampelli told msnbc.com. "We have runaways, we have prostitution, but to have a mother force a child is very unusual."
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I'll defer until there is actually evidence. However, if this in fact proves to be true, "mother" needs to be put away for the rest of her pathetic life.
I agree we must see the evidence but something very serious, whatever it may have been, had to cause this very young girl to run all the way from Ohio to Mexico. This is not a normal pre-teen reaction to parental problems.
Iit was 5 years ago. What evidence would there be ?! Evidence or lack there of does not change the truth and it does not change the facts.
Why should tax-payers pay to put her away for life? We should have work camps or some other form of income producing place to put people like this so we don't have to support her.
"Here's ya once chance Fancy, don't let me down."
drugs
MD lotsa numbers.....That kinda sounds like slavery to me..Maybe one day you will get pulled over for drinking and driving and it can happen to you..Or some other offense that people commit who think they are perfect and never break any of our way too many laws..Don't get me wrong I think drinking and driving is bad...I just believe guilty till otherwise proved and if you didn't get in an accident and hurt someone or drive erratically how can they arrest you because you could have hurt someone..Kinda like the minority report..Those drinking and driving checkpoints are municipal cash machines that go against every thing our constitution and God given freedoms are supposed to protect...I guess I am a libertarian about most things like that..
She ruined her daughter for life and any chance of having a normal relationship with a man, she may even never trust a man again..She certainly doesnt need her pathetic Mother.
Her daughter is NOT ruined. I hate when people say stuff like that. Her daughter's life has been tragically changed, but at least she is alive and thank God for her friend who helped her run away.
the kid is not ruined, but I think we've all seen just how damaging this can be to any kid well into their adult years. most now adult survivors of xtreme childhood abuse I've seen suffer long lasting problems. She has a long road of recovery ahead of her. I think thats what the people above were trying to say. but she is not ruined, she is alive and now has a chance for a better life.
Having endured a crap childhood, including physical abuse and sexual molestation, I understand how hard it is to recover. But we have our whole adult lives to correct the trauma of our childhoods. But the more people say things like "her life is ruined" the greater the risk that some girls will believe it. We have to say to them, it's a great tragedy what has happened to you, but we will help you and you will get strong again.
I hope that in addition to locking away the mother for the rest of her life, the authorities will do a very rigorous investigation into who are the local "Johns" who purchased services in this instance - they are nothing other than sexual predators - and publicly exposing them and bringing them to harsh and swift justice.
If true, put the woman down, just as you would a man. This is just sick.
Am I the only one wondering why the "Acquaintance" helped her leave the country as opposed to calling the police. I mean it is good that they helped and got her out of the situation but it seems really extreme. Plus it does make it harder to collaberate er story and find witnesses. I dont know if they were just worried that the mom might get custody again but I would at least tried the police first then helped her run away of for some reason they returned her....seemd kinda weird
I agree this situation makes it really hard not to say "lets torture the name of the johns out of the abusive monster."
and yes Jess I am wondering that too. but if they didn't have a reason to trust the cops we can at least be thankful some adult in her life helped her.
Wasn't the movie Cabin In the Woods filmed in that area ?
This is so disgusting it is hard to believe, although too many things these days are hard to believe.
Dandaman,
The mother's behavior is disgusting, however, I am most disturbed and saddened by a sexual market that demands the "services" of a fifth grader!!
This happens more than you would think. I'd be shocked if there was a town where this isn't happening.
Also, this isn't a 'these days' thing. It's been happening for hundreds, if not thousands, of years. People are just now becoming aware of such things.
I would like to thank the relatives who risked themselves by performing a virtual kidnapping in order to protect this child. Knowing the legal system, after the 'Find the Children' finally got the child, I imagine they went through some legal nonsense to justify their actions, but that it was likely well worth it.
I hope not, but I'm thinking probably so.
They should make the mother turn tricks to see how she likes it, but then again since she has no morals she probably wouldnt care. She is disgusting. I dont think the girl is making it up.
She's probably so ugly & pathetic that no one would pay her. That's why she forced her daughter.
Same thing is happening right now in a small town or big city near you. This just goes to show us how drugs can bring a person to do things in their life that in all honesty they wouldn't do if they were not on drugs. Very tragic for this family.
If what you are saying is true, it is an excellent argument in favor of legalization of drugs. It would be much cheaper and a heck of a lot safer to just give the drugs away than continue the War on Drugs.
Paduki,
You need to smoke another one and please refrain from stupid legalization arguments. No war on drugs were mentioned. The facts are that drugs are a cancer on our society that needs to be surgically removed before it spreads to the rest of America. I was a social worker and saw the terrible things people do to and with their children in order to feed the monkey on their backs. You are obviously one of these and I wonder and fear for the safety of anyone that is unfortunate enough to depend on you for their safety.
Why don't you relocate to a country where you can stay fogged up all day and night. I have seen parents say that they "love" their children and allow them to go hungry while they spend their money on drugs and Cigarettes. When one of the druggies go to jail or prison, they are clean when released but will jump back into the life as soon as possible. Drugs are a choice to leave your brain behind. All of the common sense and morals leave as soon as you go their. It is a choice that you make and the children are the victims.
Let me see if I have this right Paduki...
You say if a substance makes people do horrible things in order to get it we should then make it easier to get. How stoned do you have to be to come up with that logic?
I have to agree, Paduki that was a bad way to put it. This case doesnt help the fight to legalize drugs. I do agree with you though that we need to end the war on drugs. Itis too costly, and it doesn't impact drug trade enough to justify it.
That way we can get more small girls hooked on drugs and have younger prostitutes. *sarcasm*
@Larry - you are so right about what addiction will lead people to do. I worked in drug & alcohol rehabs and have worked with teen victims and offenders.
If people heard these kids' stories first hand, I don't know who could make statements that legalization of drugs is a solution. Do you think the parents who are in the grips of a progressive addiction are going to be able to work and make sufficient money to pay for their addiction even if the drugs were legal? If you believe that, then you've never really seen people in the ever deepening bondage of addiction. These aren't social users. This isn't equivalent to the person who stops for a couple of drinks at the local bar a couple times of week. This is a life consuming relationship with substances that overtakes all other relationships and turns people in to souless slaves to their next fix.
Getting turned on by a child this age can only be accomplished by a real sick son-of-a-bitch. They need to beat this mother until she names the ass-holes that used this kid. Then put her and them all away for the rest of their miserable days.
I hope the child is doing okay and as far as the mother is concerned, there are words that I want to use, but my day starts with word "PEACE". Read between the lines folks.
The mother is a worthless piece of dookey.
....yep,refried, just saw a pic of the mother...usual suspect...
i was abused in every form you can think of as a child, raped, beaten, burned, tortured, starved--etc etc and let me tell you first hand, it is a miserable and horrible existence as a young and teen age child. i lived to tell and published my memoir--which is on the best sellers list now--but the scars remain FOREVER!
i hope this so called mother goes to prison for life along with all the so called men who raped her and i hope they get it up their you know what worse than this little girl ever did--this child is not lying she is telling the truth and the mother is actually one SICK disgusting MOTHER--if you know what i mean!
I wouldn't call her a "mother". A mother would never do this to her daughter. Mother's are supposed to protect their children. I'd beat to a bloody pulp anyone who would dare touch my babies.
i am not inclined to believe a run-away over her parent. the person responsible for aiding & abetting the girl's escape should be charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor and other crimes. but, in this upside down country, all one needs to do is pretend to be a victim and s/he will become an instant celebrity incapable of sinning, lying, etc...
100,000 bail? cruel & unusual.
why didnt they go to the police?I mean, I totally believe that it happened, I'm just trying to understand why the police werent initially called,before all the "spiriting away"? Wouldnt that have been easier, and the mom would have been punished and more than likey in a hard core prison.
The Federal Health and Human Services (HHS) web site statistics breaks through the myth of men and child abuse. It's by far the "Mom" who is the perpetrator...their report also states that if there is a man involved...it's usually NOT the father and the "Mom" usually is either involved also or knows about it and allows it...