Kansas City News Blog

​This is out of Wichita and fucked up. A 48-year-old Wichita woman is on trial this week for allegedly prostituting her 5-year-old daughter for booze and smokes.

The woman, who isn't being named to protect the identity of her daughter, and 51-year-old Reggie Stafford are "charged with multiple counts of rape, sodomy and aggravated indecent liberties with a child," Wichita Eagle reports. The woman denies the charges but admits having a drinking problem.

The Eagle's Ron Sylvester is tweeting the trial, and his 140-character comments give more insight than the story on the Eagle's site. Sylvester tweets:

• Background: two grown sisters had said that their mother took them to have sex with Stafford when they were preteens or early teens.
• But in January the judge ruled that evidence was inadmissible. So the jurors will not hear about that.
• The 6-year-old said he mother and Reggie touched her "potty."
• [SRS social worker Melissa] Gardner: The girl said her mother forced her to perform oral sex on Reggie.
• Gardner: The girl also said she'd drank whiskey five different times.
• Gardner: The girl said Reggie gave her mom a "nasty" movie with people and animals.
• Gardner: The girl said, "I cried and screamed and no one did anything." That's when the girl told her brother what had happened.

The trial is supposed to resume at 9:30 a.m. today.


Via Crime Scene KC