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OTTAWA — A teen girl described how she was shot with a paintball gun and zapped with a stun gun by a 16-year-old boyfriend who was pimping her out as an exotic dancer.
The pretty, petite girl said she was only 16 years old and attending high school when she met the boyfriend, who convinced her they’d be together forever and that she could retire before her 30th birthday to the house they’d buy with the money she made stripping.
She handed over every penny of the $24,000 she made dancing in strip clubs like the Silver Dollar and BareFax over a four-month period beginning in August 2011, the girl testified Wednesday at the boyfriend’s human-trafficking trial.
She got hired at the clubs even though she was underage by first using her older sister’s ID and later with a $600 phoney ID purchased with the money she made dancing.
The boyfriend also bought her shoes with “stripper heals” and paid for her to have her nails done, she said.
The teen testified lap dances cost $20 per song, although she confessed she once had sex with a man as an “extra” for $100 at her boyfriend’s urging to make more money. Another time he pimped her out to a friend for $200 for sex but nothing happened because the friend couldn’t get aroused.
But when she said she wanted out or didn’t work enough, the boyfriend called her a slacker and shot her with the paintball gun.
“(He) told me I needed to be shot because I didn’t work for a week and that’s what I deserve,” she said, describing how she cried after the shot to her hip left a bloody red and blue mark.
He hugged her and told her, “This is what happens when you don’t work”, she said.
It was the second time she had been shot at with the paintball gun. He earlier shot her twice in the backside, solely because another girl who was allegedly pimped out by her boyfriend’s roommate had already had her turn.
Another time he was drunk and shocked her with one of two stun guns he carried as a joke, she said.
She didn’t think it was funny.
He did it again the next day “because of something I said,” the girl testified.
The girl described how she and another girl slept in a sleeping bag on the floor while her boyfriend and his friend shared the bed in a Gatineau house. They also stayed in motels, she said.
The girl described how she got a tattoo on her neck with the boyfriend’s name written in Arabic at his urging.
“He was just saying if I loved him, I should have his name on me,” she said.
It was his idea to write the name in another language “so that guys in the club wouldn’t think I was being pimped out,” she said.
The girl said she spent her 17th birthday in the Silver Dollar strip club. Her boyfriend hit her at least 10 times with an iPhone later that night after she complained about how they weren’t going out for her birthday.
She told him repeatedly he wasn’t a man because a man wouldn’t hit a woman or treat her that way.
The girl, who came from a broken home, described how she once lied and told him her father died so she could spend more than one night away from him. He only wanted to know if there was an inheritance, she said.
When she later told him she couldn’t get the inheritance, he just told her she’d have to start working again.
She told him she didn’t want to.
“He told me I was a slacker and didn’t want a good life, I wanted a bum life,” the girl said.
The girl went back to him again in December 2011 to help her friend, but texted a police detective from a hotel in Toronto pleading for help when it became clear her boyfriend was going to make her dance again.
“I knew it would go back to the way it was and I needed to get out of there,” she said.
The accused, who is now 17 years old, has pleaded not guilty to 16 charges, including human trafficking, living off the avails of a person under 18, assault with a weapon and possession of a weapon. He can’t be identified under provision of the Youth Criminal Justice Act.
The trial continues Thursday.
OTTAWA — A teen girl described how she was shot with a paintball gun and zapped with a stun gun by a 16-year-old boyfriend who was pimping her out as an exotic dancer.
The pretty, petite girl said she was only 16 years old and attending high school when she met the boyfriend, who convinced her they’d be together forever and that she could retire before her 30th birthday to the house they’d buy with the money she made stripping.
She handed over every penny of the $24,000 she made dancing in strip clubs like the Silver Dollar and BareFax over a four-month period beginning in August 2011, the girl testified Wednesday at the boyfriend’s human-trafficking trial.
She got hired at the clubs even though she was underage by first using her older sister’s ID and later with a $600 phoney ID purchased with the money she made dancing.
The boyfriend also bought her shoes with “stripper heals” and paid for her to have her nails done, she said.
The teen testified lap dances cost $20 per song, although she confessed she once had sex with a man as an “extra” for $100 at her boyfriend’s urging to make more money. Another time he pimped her out to a friend for $200 for sex but nothing happened because the friend couldn’t get aroused.
But when she said she wanted out or didn’t work enough, the boyfriend called her a slacker and shot her with the paintball gun.
“(He) told me I needed to be shot because I didn’t work for a week and that’s what I deserve,” she said, describing how she cried after the shot to her hip left a bloody red and blue mark.
He hugged her and told her, “This is what happens when you don’t work”, she said.
It was the second time she had been shot at with the paintball gun. He earlier shot her twice in the backside, solely because another girl who was allegedly pimped out by her boyfriend’s roommate had already had her turn.
Another time he was drunk and shocked her with one of two stun guns he carried as a joke, she said.
She didn’t think it was funny.
He did it again the next day “because of something I said,” the girl testified.
The girl described how she and another girl slept in a sleeping bag on the floor while her boyfriend and his friend shared the bed in a Gatineau house. They also stayed in motels, she said.
The girl described how she got a tattoo on her neck with the boyfriend’s name written in Arabic at his urging.
“He was just saying if I loved him, I should have his name on me,” she said.
It was his idea to write the name in another language “so that guys in the club wouldn’t think I was being pimped out,” she said.
The girl said she spent her 17th birthday in the Silver Dollar strip club. Her boyfriend hit her at least 10 times with an iPhone later that night after she complained about how they weren’t going out for her birthday.
She told him repeatedly he wasn’t a man because a man wouldn’t hit a woman or treat her that way.
The girl, who came from a broken home, described how she once lied and told him her father died so she could spend more than one night away from him. He only wanted to know if there was an inheritance, she said.
When she later told him she couldn’t get the inheritance, he just told her she’d have to start working again.
She told him she didn’t want to.
“He told me I was a slacker and didn’t want a good life, I wanted a bum life,” the girl said.
The girl went back to him again in December 2011 to help her friend, but texted a police detective from a hotel in Toronto pleading for help when it became clear her boyfriend was going to make her dance again.
“I knew it would go back to the way it was and I needed to get out of there,” she said.
The accused, who is now 17 years old, has pleaded not guilty to 16 charges, including human trafficking, living off the avails of a person under 18, assault with a weapon and possession of a weapon. He can’t be identified under provision of the Youth Criminal Justice Act.
The trial continues Thursday.
. Sometimes I think of quitting hobbying and go back to dancers as I used to be for many years prior to 2008 when I started hobbying (because of these dark sides like pimping, drugs, forceful prostitution) but I see now that all these have spread to dancers too. Very sad indeed. Maybe we need a tough law on pimping or forcing young girls to prostitution (like mandatory long sentences). What I don't understand (and I have heard it many times) how can these young girls actually believe their boyfriends lies that they love them when they force them to sleep with other guys for money or beat them up when they don't make enough money!!!!!. They are young but they still have brains, no?
