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Mom sold daughters into prostitution, for car, report says
Associated Press
Published April 14, 2005
OKEECHOBEE - A mother is accused of selling a 12-year-old daughter into prostitution and trading a 14-year-old daughter for a car.
The 39-year-old woman, whose name was not released to protect the girls' identities, was jailed on two counts of aggravated child abuse and two counts of sexual performance by a child.
The younger girl and her mother were living out of a car and the prostitution was for food and an occasional shower at the men's homes, according to a report by Okeechobee County sheriff's Detective K.J. Ammons. The younger daughter is three months pregnant, the report said.
The older daughter refused to be used as a prostitute and "was sold to a man for a Mercury Cougar," Ammons said. "But he never gave the mother the vehicle."
That 23-year-old man has been charged with sexual performance by a child and jailed.
The younger girl told detectives her mother pulled both girls out of school for fear they would tell someone.
"She said she was a good student and made A's and B's, and all she wants to do is go back to school," Ammons said.
Both girls have been turned over to the Department of Children and Families, which will enroll them in a new school, Ammons said.
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