Lost in Lima, Ohio is as shocked as I am about exposure of rampant child exploitation in the Texas sex industry by news coverage of the 13 year old “pimp” arrested recently. A tangential part of the story was the revelation that Police discovered a 12 year old working as an exotic dancer in a separate incident.
The girl was a run away who was pimped out by a 22 year old named David Bell and who worked in tandem with his 27 year old ex-stripper girlfriend Demonica Abron to lure underage girls into working in strip clubs. Assuredly they took a generous cut of the girls tips.
It’s been reported that the girl claimed she was 19 but couldn’t prove it:
The sixth-grader danced at Diamonds Cabaret over a two-week period late last year, police said. They also say they found a 17-year-old girl working in the club in January.
Operators of the Diamonds Cabaret at 2444 Walnut Ridge St. have not returned calls for comment. Their sexually oriented business license expires in November.
Demonica Abron, 27, who worked as a stripper in the club, and David Bell, 22, are facing charges in connection with the 12-year-old girl’s dancing in the club. Mr. Bell does not appear to have been employed by the club.
According to court documents, the 12-year-old told club employees that she was 19, but couldn’t give them identification and didn’t know what year she was born if she were that age. Still, she was allowed to dance in the club, records show.
The 23-page city ordinance allows the revocation of a club’s license if, for example, the club knowingly allows prostitution, the sale or use of drugs at the club, or if there are two convictions for sex-related crimes at the club within a 12-month period.
This is a seedy story to be sure, and one we would expect to end with the club being shut down and the owners arrested. However if that’s the ending you’re looking for you’re going to be sorely disappointed.
DALLAS — It doesn’t matter that underage teens are selling their bodies and dancing without clothes in some Dallas nightclubs; those businesses are protected by law.
Investigators say their hands are tied because the city’s ordinance is written in such a way that it’s virtually impossible to force them to close their doors.
News 8 has been looking into those rules, and has also been examining court documents that detail what a 12-year-old stripper says happened to her.
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“I don’t know why it’s taking them so long to do something about it or shut it down being as they have minors working in their club,” said the girl’s mother.
But police say closing the club is difficult because the city’s ordinance on sexually oriented businesses doesn’t let them revoke a license for hiring someone under 18.
Police say they have to get two convictions for sex-related crimes within a year at the club before something can be done. “It can be difficult because you have to have convictions — we’re not just talking about arrests,” said Deputy Chief Julian Bernal.
Investigators hope they can get that conviction with Bell and a club employee who are charged with seven felonies.
“If they don’t do something about it. they’re going to continue to have underage girls working in their clubs,” said the 12-year-old’s mother.
What? I assume a little thing like contributing to the delinquency of a minor would be enough to close a bar. What about charging the patrons who groped the 12 year old? How can anyone really avoid prosecution for employing a 12 year old to perform in sex shows because the law governing strip club violations isn’t written to include child exploitation?
People have their places of business shut down during investigations all the time, but in Dallas more than one club employing underage girls is avoiding punishment and authorities are hiding behind legalistic mumbo-jumbo to explain why.
And why is Dallas a hot bed of overt child exploitation anyway? I’m not naive but the situation in Dallas seems to be one of normalized child sex abuse. What’s going on? Drugs? Rampant Liberalism?
Or is it unfettered immigration from countries where extreme misogyny is the norm?
In 2006 Dr Deborah Schurman-Kauflin, author of Vulture: Profiling Sadistic Serial Killers, published an article making the argument that sexualized violence was being imported from countries where rape and exploitation of children were considered the norm. Perhaps it can explain the rising demand for child sex workers in Texas.
From Importing Violence: The Danger of Immigration from Violent Cultures:
Over the past several years, the U.S. has seen a large influx of immigrants, both legal and illegal, from countries whose values are opposed to the rights guaranteed by the U.S. constitution. Specifically, there are large numbers of immigrants coming from countries that are misogynistic. These societies accord women little to no rights, and the idea of violence committed by men against women and children is not unusual.
First, take the concept of ‘rapto.’ This comes from Mexico where in some areas, it is socially acceptable for a man of any age to abduct a female of any age as long as long as he intends to marry her. That is right. Men can kidnap and rape females. This is acceptable in Oaxaca where the government continues to view rapto as a minor crime. One legislator even referred to this horrid violation as “romantic.†Lest anyone believe such garbage, note that 24 year old Mexican immigrant Eliseo Nunez snatched a 12 year old girl and took her to Mexico to fulfill his erotic desires. Isn’t that romantic?
The fact is that South American male attitudes toward females are often archaic and misogynistic. Thus it is not surprising that the U.S. is seeing more attacks against women and little girls committed by these immigrants. In August 2005, illegal immigrant Jose Ramirez from El Salvador was charged with the violent attack of a 15 year old girl who refused to respond when he whistled at her (Roh, 2005). Perhaps such primitive behavior stems from the homeland culture. El Salvador and Guatemala have had a string of unsolved brutal murders where young females have been abducted and cut apart. Authorities have found body parts, including heads scattered around. In one instance, two female heads were deposited right in front of a local police station, blood still oozing from the severed heads (Miles, 2003). Gangs are suspected in these crimes as it is often part of their initiation to kill.
A serial rapist from Honduras was recently convicted in New Jersey. Ricardo Cepates is an illegal immigrant who was convicted on 26 counts of kidnapping, rape, and robbery. Another illegal immigrant, who should have been deported in 2000, savagely stabbed Carly Snyder to death. Fredil Rodriquez hailed from Honduras and apparently brought his hatred of women with him (Hirsch, June 15, 2005).
Perhaps the most grotesque and gruesome crime is the rape and murder of a nun by yet another migrant worker from South America. It is amazing that this story received so little attention when imaginary crimes against illegal immigrants are portrayed on television shows in order to gain sympathy for these criminals (i.e. a T.V. show airing an episode where a Minutemen volunteer hurts an illegal immigrant). Thirty three year old Maximiliano Esparza raped and sodomized two nuns and used their rosary beads to control them during the attack. The Sisters were beaten, raped, sodomized, and finally, Esparza used her own rosary beads to strangle Sister Helen Lynn Chaska to death. Esparza had needed lodging and checked into the Klamath Falls Gospel Mission in Oregon. This Spanish speaking migrant had spent his evening getting drunk at a local strip club and encountered the nuns as they were walking and saying prayers. Of note, Esparza had a history of criminal behavior and had served a three year sentence in a California prison. He had been deported one time, and shockingly, U.S. Border Patrol let him go after detaining him a few months prior to the rape/murder. It doesn’t get more vile and disgusting than this.
The article is interesting and by no means targets Latin Americans exclusively, as immigrants from Islamic countries are examined as well. But it is clear that Dallas is an illegal immigration hub and many of those immigrants would otherwise be disqualified from entering the country if we actually controlled our borders and examined people who came in.
Child exploitation is common in Third World countries where women and little girls are seen as objects to be used for men’s sexual gratification and Latin America is no exception. With the modern left promoting an anti-assimilation message to illegals is it any wonder markets open up for things that Americans find barbaric?
I have known many South Americans over the years who have told me that there are things that are socially acceptable in their home countries that are despicable. Men exposing themselves to pre-teen girls, sex between adults and children and most important to us child exploitation in the form very young girls working as dancers and prostitutes.
Is this part of the problem in Dallas? And is the inaction of police part of a general ambivalence of Law Enforcement in confronting the immigration problem? I don’t know, but it’s clear that there is something rotten in Dallas.