Teenage Gang Members Accused of Forcing 12-Year-Old Girls Into Texas Prostitution Ring

AP via FOX ^ | January 15, 2008 | Staff

[forkinsocket]

FORT WORTH, Texas — Police have arrested several teenage gang members accused of forcing girls as young as 12 into a prostitution ring.

After befriending the girls and getting them high, the Varrio Central gang members took them to some regular customers and then sought other men by trolling apartment complexes, offering the girls' services for $50, Lt. Ken Dean said Tuesday.

The gang apparently targeted runaways and other girls with unstable homes, and if the girls refused to have sex for money the members beat and sexually assaulted them and threatened their families, Dean said.

"The age of the victims and suspects is the surprising part of it," Dean said. "To have such young individuals in a somewhat organized business, a forced prostitution ring, is somewhat alarming and such a horrendous crime against the 12- to 16-year-old girls."

Detectives found five victims, ages 12 to 16, but believe there may be more. Those girls are back with relatives or in other safe places, he said, declining to elaborate.

A teenage girl who may be a gang member helped the group by going to the victims' houses to pick them up under the pretense of going shopping or to a movie, which fooled the parents, said Lt. Dan Draper.

[forkinsocket]

"It seems the primary motivation was just to continue doing drugs and alcohol," Dean said.

[wastedyears]

I hope they chip rocks until they’re 35.

[robomatik]

or until they’re worm bait!!!

[Casaubon]

I didn't know the border was moved up 400 miles?

Latin gangs and underage prostitution? sounds like a Mexican slum border-town to me.

I say let em do it it!!...ya know In the name of DIVERSITY!

who said the illegals are not assimilating....they are assimilating their culture into ours.

[Razz Barry]

Latin gangs and underage prostitution? sounds like a Mexican slum border-town to me.

Sounds like Dalton, Georgia, and before long every other American town.

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

Notice how FOX does not mention the “demographic profile” of these Hispanic gangs in the front end of the story or their immigration status...

[Boris99]

Who are we to judge? All cultures are equally relevant./s

[Deaf Smith]

Here is today's story of the same:

*Gangs focusing more on making money, police say*

Snip...

"FORT WORTH -- A prostitution ring operated by teenage gang members that victimized girls -- and that was recently broken up by police -- appears to be the first of its kind in Fort Worth,"...

"But the operation fits a trend that police have noticed: street gangs spending less energy on defending colors and turf and more on moneymaking opportunities."

http://www.star-telegram.com/news/story/412475.html

[from occupied ga]

No doubt long term citizens of the USA whose hispanic surnames are just a coincidence.