This is a horrific case in which 2 women basically enslaved a mentally disabled girl, forced her into prostitution and tortured her:
St. Louis - Waquita Wallace was sentenced to 20 years in prison on a federal charge of sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion, Grace Loretta King, Acting Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights, and Michael W. Reap, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri announced today.
In June 2008, April Chaney moved into the 5200 block of Genevieve in St. Louis to live with her sister, Waquita Wallace. That same month, Chaney and Wallace talked a mentally disabled 18 year-old girl into moving in with them so they could care for her. Instead the girl was held captive, forced to give up her monthly disability check, and to work as a prostitute to pay off a drug debt. Wallace constantly threatened, beat, burned, tortured and humiliated the girl. On one occasion, Wallace was afraid that the police had been called, so she and Chaney tied the girl up with a phone cord and left her in the garage.
“Sex trafficking violates individuals’ basic human rights, stripping them of their dignity and freedom,” Acting Assistant Attorney General King said. “The damage done to the victim in this case cannot be reversed, but I applaud the investigators and attorneys who brought these defendants to justice, and it should send a message that we will continue to vigorously enforce our nation’s civil rights laws.” - Read the entire article here
Friday, August 21, 2009
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