15-Year-Old Prostitute Arrested Along With Pimp, 58 Others

By Brandon K. Thorp Wed., Apr. 20 2011 at 10:27 AM

Sixty souls were apprehended in Polk County over the last week, as Polk's finest spent your tax payer dollars arresting sex-workers and their clients. Among the apprehended were a sex-starved Disney mechanic and a man with breast implants who advertised his services on Backpage.com. (Backpage.com is a classifieds website owned by this publication's parent company, Village Voice Media.) Surely, the world is a better place now.

There was something chilling about the language with which the Orlando Sentinel's Bianca Prieto documented the sting in yesterday's papers. After reviewing the basic facts and going into some detail about the apprehended shemale, Prieto wrote:

Others arrested included a 15-year-old runaway from Chicago who arrived at the undercover location with her pimp and 2-month-old child. The alleged pimp, Jonathan Padilla, remained in the car while the girl went in to meet the undercover officers.

Padilla and the juvenile were arrested, and the infant was turned over to the Department of Children and Families.

Pardon me, but if a 15-year-old Polk County girl had sex with a janitor at her high school she would be hugged and put in analysis. Here, however, is a runaway who has been bought, sold, and almost certainly raped, and now she's been arrested. Sweet justice!

Perhaps the girl's arrest was a mere formality -- perhaps the charges will be thrown out, and she'll be given a hug, an ear, semi-permanent shelter and some good, stern counseling. But probably not. She was charged with solicitation and child abuse; a one-two-punch that ought to see her living out the remainder of her adolescence in a ~~Crime College~~ juvenile detention facility. Justice is blind, apparently, as well as blunt, mean, and more than a little stupid.

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James

Seems that time and time again the girls, the customers get burned. When will law enforcement stop being lazy and start to nail the pimps. Is it because they have to work hard to get the evidence, is it that the pimps are so smart the cops can get the evidence, is that the police need to protect against racial harrasment charges. Where you get the pimps, you get the muggings, the drugs, the rapes, the human trafficking. They should be hounded, arrested and the keys thrown away. They destroy lives, neighbourhoods and leave uncounted offspring for the taxpayer to support.

NC Stop Human Trafficking

Just want to point out: according to federal law (The Trafficking Victims Protection Act), anyone under the age of 18 engaged in prostitution is considered a victim of human trafficking.

Number one indicator of trafficking: her age. By default she is considered a VICTIM, not a criminal.

Number two indicator: She is a runaway. They have a 1/3 chance of being trafficked within 48 hours of leaving home.

Someone who knows who to contact in Polk County: PLEASE contact the National Human Trafficking Hotline - 888-373-7888

Ulexirome

So true....The 15 year old girl is my friend and she was doing it to support her child...this is all she knew...she shuldnt be charged for trying to have a bettr life for her son. its nnot like she took him in with her to the room she left him with the father in the car outside the perimeter

Czeidman

She was more than likely threatened that her child would be harmed if she didn't comply. One of the many ways young girls are exploited is by the pimp threatening to harm a loved one.

angela73

She was doing it to support her pimp, I'm pretty sure my taxes are going to support her and her entire family, as well as yours.

Phatblackchick

EEEEEYYYEWWWWW!!!!!! That image has burned my retinas!!!!!

Wordsmithy

I guess you aren't up to snuff on Imperial Polk County, where the imperial grand wizard of the state KKK used to base his operations. Remember last year when a Polk County deputy was shot to death in a traffic stop by a young black man with dreadlocks? Remember the huge manhunt that went on for several days? Remember what happened when the found him? His body had something like 56 bullet holes in it, and a Saturday night special (I'm not saying it was a throw-down) was, they said, found next to his body. Them ol' boys in polk County don't do no pussyfootin', good buddy.