(StarTribune)
A Hopkins High School senior faces felony charges that she prostituted one of her cheerleading teammates — a 16-year-old girl who receives special education services.
Montia Marie Parker, 18, of Maple Grove will appear in Hennepin County District Court next week to face charges of sex trafficking and promoting prostitution.
The cheerleader is accused of setting up a Backpage.com ad for her teammate, claiming she wanted to help her make money, driving her to a Crystal apartment to have sex with a man and then taking the $60 the girl made.
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Across the state, police working at high schools are seeing more cases involving teenage girls whose sexual services have been peddled on Backpage.com, a common website for juvenile prostitution.
“We’re seeing a lot of Backpage-related stuff,” said Minneapolis Lt. Kim Lund, president of the Minnesota Juvenile Officers’ Association, adding that the cases aren’t just happening in the metro area but in St. Cloud and rural Minnesota. “It’s probably more prevalent than we want to admit.”
However, Lund said, it’s unusual for a case to involve a teenager prostituting a fellow teen; most human trafficking cases involve adult men or women trafficking adults or teens."
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Not only was she just a child, but a retarded child at that.
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