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World
Apr 1, 2010

Teen sold stepsister for sex

TRENTON (New Jersey) - A 15-YEAR-OLD New Jersey girl set up her 7-year-old stepsister to have sex with as many as seven men and boys at a weekend party near their home and also accepted money for herself, police said. Trenton police Captain Joseph Juniak said on Wednesday that the older girl started by taking money to have sex with several men at a party in a high-rise apartment. The teen then gave some of the money she had collected to the younger girl to let the men start touching her, Capt Juniak said.

'It went from touching to straight out assault and rape,' Capt Juniak said. 'They threatened to kill her if she screamed or told anyone.' The child later put on her clothes and left the apartment; her sister stayed. Two women found the child crying outside the apartment and walked her home. The teen is charged with aggravated sexual assault, promoting prostitution and other crimes. Her name was not released because of her age. She was being held in a juvenile detention facility.

A spokesman for the county prosecutor's office, Casey DeBlasio, said prosecutors would seek to have the teen tried as an adult. Police believe as many as a dozen people were at the party. They are trying to track down the men and boys who attended and additional arrests are expected. Police said the girls were outside Sunday afternoon in the neighbourhood when the 15-year-old ran into two young men she knew who invited her to a party at the apartment. Rather than leave the 7-year-old behind, the teen took her along. -- AP

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World
Apr 4, 2010

5 charged in gang rape of girl, 7

TRENTON (New Jersey) - TWO adults and three juveniles have been charged with gang-raping a 7-year-old girl who was sold by her 15-year-old stepsister during a party at a crime-ridden apartment building, police said on Saturday. Details on the arrests were announced at a Saturday night news conference at police headquarters in Trenton, the state's capital city. The arrested people include a 20-year-old man who already had been charged on Friday with having sex with the 15-year-old. The other four are a 19-year-old Trenton man and boys ages 13, 14 and 17. Each was charged with aggravated sexual assault and child endangerment.

Police said further arrests may be made in the case, which shocked residents of the gritty Rowan Towers apartment building. Authorities say the 7-year-old girl was offered for sale by her stepsister on March 28. They say the stepsister went to a party with some men at Rowan Towers and the younger girl tagged along because she worried about her stepsister's safety. Police say the 15-year-old sold sex to men, then took money to let them touch the younger girl. They say touching turned to forcible sex as at least seven men raped the 7-year-old. -- AP