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Mother Guilty Of Links To Daughter's Sex Assault
October 24, 2009|By Peter Dujardin, pdujardin@dailypress.com 247-4749
HAMPTON — A mother who was accused of prostituting her 10-year-old daughter in return for crack cocaine pleaded guilty Friday to several charges of sexually assaulting the girl.
The mother, 38, of Newport News, pleaded guilty in Hampton Circuit Court to forcible sodomy, conspiracy to commit forcible sodomy, aggravated sexual battery and a prostitution charge, according to the prosecutor on the case, Deputy Commonwealth's Attorney Leslie A. Siman-Tov.
The Daily Press is not naming the mother because doing so could identify the girl. The paper's policy is not to identify sexual assault victims.
For five days in May 2007, the mother and Joe Arthur Slade, 59, holed themselves up in a Mercury Boulevard hotel room - fueled by heroin and crack cocaine provided by Slade.
The woman tearfully testified during Slade's September trial that one night toward the end of their binge, they went to pick up her 10-year-old daughter from a Newport News apartment, where she was in her sleeping clothes.
Slade had promised to take the girl to Busch Gardens the next day and buy her some new clothes.
But when they got back to the La Quinta Inn, Slade wanted oral sex from the girl, according to trial testimony. At Slade's urging, the mother then performed oral sex on Slade to teach the girl how to do it.
After the mother "went into a bathroom to get high some more," she testified, she came out and saw her daughter giving Slade oral sex.
"I ran back into the bathroom. I couldn't believe what I was seeing," she said.
The mother will be sentenced Sept. 14 by Circuit Court Judge Bonnie L. Jones.
Slade was convicted at the September trial, with the jury recommending 30 years in prison. Slade and the mother also face similar charges in Newport News.
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October 24, 2009|By Peter Dujardin, pdujardin@dailypress.com 247-4749
HAMPTON — A mother who was accused of prostituting her 10-year-old daughter in return for crack cocaine pleaded guilty Friday to several charges of sexually assaulting the girl.
The mother, 38, of Newport News, pleaded guilty in Hampton Circuit Court to forcible sodomy, conspiracy to commit forcible sodomy, aggravated sexual battery and a prostitution charge, according to the prosecutor on the case, Deputy Commonwealth's Attorney Leslie A. Siman-Tov.
The Daily Press is not naming the mother because doing so could identify the girl. The paper's policy is not to identify sexual assault victims.
For five days in May 2007, the mother and Joe Arthur Slade, 59, holed themselves up in a Mercury Boulevard hotel room - fueled by heroin and crack cocaine provided by Slade.
The woman tearfully testified during Slade's September trial that one night toward the end of their binge, they went to pick up her 10-year-old daughter from a Newport News apartment, where she was in her sleeping clothes.
Slade had promised to take the girl to Busch Gardens the next day and buy her some new clothes.
But when they got back to the La Quinta Inn, Slade wanted oral sex from the girl, according to trial testimony. At Slade's urging, the mother then performed oral sex on Slade to teach the girl how to do it.
After the mother "went into a bathroom to get high some more," she testified, she came out and saw her daughter giving Slade oral sex.
"I ran back into the bathroom. I couldn't believe what I was seeing," she said.
The mother will be sentenced Sept. 14 by Circuit Court Judge Bonnie L. Jones.
Slade was convicted at the September trial, with the jury recommending 30 years in prison. Slade and the mother also face similar charges in Newport News.
http://articles.dailypress.com/2009-...ssault-victims
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