Man beat 15-year-old girl brought to Twin Cities to be a prostitute [View all]

[MineralMan]

http://www.twincities.com/crime/ci_23385893/man-prostituted-beat-teen-roseville-and-st-paul

For those who are posting that prostitutes do that willingly, and that it's OK, please read below and at the link:

After the 15-year-old refused to prostitute herself again for Arteco Marvell Rhodes, the 38-year-old Chicago man beat her with a baseball bat, strangled her, urinated on her and threatened to kill her and burn her body or throw it in the river, according to a criminal complaint filed in Ramsey County District Court.

The complaint charges Rhodes with first-degree sex trafficking, third-degree criminal sexual conduct and possession of child pornography.

According to the complaint, the teen, identified as TJ, met Rhodes in Chicago, and he asked her if she wanted to make money and be "part of a family."

"Rhodes told her they were going to go to Minnesota to do 'tricks,' " the complaint said.

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This is prostitution that is not OK. It's also prostitution that is very common in urban areas all over this country. There are people who work as prostitutes willingly, but that does not make prostitution OK across the board. Some of the men who pay for sex pay for sex with 15-year-old girls like this one. Some people may even know men who do this. I don't know any such men. If I did, I would turn them in to the police, instantly. This is prostitution, too. It's not OK. Not at all OK.