15 year old sold 7 year old sister for sex

[Mark]

04-01) 12:26 PDT Trenton, N.J. (AP) --

Police conducted a pre-dawn raid Thursday at a public housing complex where officials say a 7-year-old girl was gang-raped while her teenage stepsister got paid for it, and arrested 27 people on outstanding warrants.

The sweep on Rowan Towers was planned before the girl's attack, Trenton Mayor Doug Palmer said. Police hope the arrests will lead to tips to help them find those who assaulted the girl; otherwise, the arrests were unrelated to the case, he said.

"This is only the beginning," Palmer said. "We're not going to rest until that area is cleaned up so that decent people can live without the threat of fear and violence."

Police say the child's 15-year-old stepsister sold her to have sex with as many as seven men and boys at a party Sunday in a vacant apartment near their home. The stepsister was arrested and charged with aggravated sexual assault, promoting prostitution and other crimes.

Many of those arrested Thursday were women, who told The Associated Press the warrants were for minor infractions. Police did not immediately return calls for further details.

Residents said the assault was clearly at the forefront of police officers' agenda during the raid at the apartment building, a high-rise complex so dangerous that police are hired as security guards at night.

Tair Rivers, 27, said officers yelled, "What happened to the little girl?" as they arrested her and other women. Rivers was arrested for outstanding parking tickets, she said.

Rivers lives in 13-H, an apartment right across from 13-C where the party occurred. She said she was not home over the weekend but would not hesitate to tell police if she knew something.

"We all got kids," River said. "If we knew something, we would tell."

Police believe as many as a dozen people were at the party and say everyone in the apartment when the rape occurred could be legally culpable. There were security cameras at the complex and police said they were reviewing all available building surveillance videos.

According to police, the teenager and the 7-year-old were outside in the neighborhood Sunday when the older girl ran into two young men she knew who invited her to the party. The 7-year-old wanted to tag along because she was worried about the older girl's safety.

At the party, the 15-year-old starting having sex with several men for money and then gave the younger girl some cash to let a group of men touch her as she looked on, police said. It soon escalated to rape and the men threatened to kill the child if she screamed or told anyone, according to police.

The girl later put on her clothes and left the apartment; her older sister stayed. Two women found the child crying outside the apartment and walked her home.

The teenager's name was not released because of her age, but the county prosecutor plans to ask the court to try her as an adult. It was not clear who was representing the girl in juvenile court.

Interstate Realty Management Company, which manages the 15-story building, said about 150 people live there, and many of the apartments are vacant.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie on Thursday called the incident "deplorable" in his first public comments on the crime that occurred in the shadow of the New Jersey Statehouse.

WTF???

[Tsukiyumi]

Yeah, I saw this. WTF indeed.

[Tyyr]

There is something fundamentally wrong with that 15 year old. Something on a "lock her up and forget about her," level. Similarly for the men who got off on a 7 year old.

[Lighthawk]

There is something fundamentally wrong with that 15 year old. Something on a "lock her up and forget about her," level. Similarly for the men who got off on a 7 year old.

Agreed. That's not just a case of being a selfish bitch or something, that is "something is fucked up in her head" level.

[Sionnach Glic]

Jesus Christ. There just aren't words for this.

[Mikey]

There is something fundamentally wrong with that 15 year old. Something on a "lock her up and forget about her," level. Similarly for the men who got off on a 7 year old.

In either case, "fundamentally wrong" doesn't even come close to describing it. I wanted to cry when I read this... especially how the 7-year-old ended up there in the first place because she was worried about her big sister.

On another note, I know that section of Trenton - I had an insurance beat there. If I had to guess at one section of the state where this might have occurred, that would be it.

[Tyyr]

Yeah, the part where the little girl was worried about her step sister's safety and went into a dangerous and uncomfortable situation to try and help her and in turn had that same girl essentially encourage the guys there to gang rape her.

When she turns 18 I hope they throw her in old sparky.

[Mark]

We live in a seriously twisted world. And you KNOW this little girl will never really recover from this.

[JudgeKing]

Truly fucked up, there no words to describe this level of cruelty.

[Captain Picard's Hair]

We live in a seriously twisted world. And you KNOW this little girl will never really recover from this.

Yeah, she'll have problems. Not that it makes a whit of difference - an inhuman piece of meat is an inhuman piece of meat - but I'd assumed that the 15-year-old referred to in the title was a boy before I read the post. I guess being heartless scum is a gender-neutral condition, though.

[Tyyr]

Being totally sexist for a moment, boys have nothing in the inhuman cruelty department on girls. The most hateful, spiteful creatures on the face of this earth are teenage girls.

[Nickswitz]

Being totally sexist for a moment, boys have nothing in the inhuman cruelty department on girls. The most hateful, spiteful creatures on the face of this earth are teenage girls.

I agree with this, boys will be the ever-loving s**t out of someone, but a girl will make you sound like you actually are a piece of s**t... Girls are a lot crueler, in the emotional sense at least.

[Reliant121]

Boys are simple. They're governed by testosterone and their own need to prove themselves. Girls have a far more industrious sense of maliciousness, and cruelty.

[RK_Striker_JK_5]

That is disturbing on some fundamental levels. I feel for that kid. The teenager... lock her up and hang her. Don't waste the electricity. Just let gravity do the work.