New Jersey teen 15 years old sells stepsister age 7 for sex with at least seven men and boys/ 15 year old has been arrested and prosecutor wants to try her as an adult

TRENTON, N.J. - Police in New Jersey's capital city say a 15-year-old sold her 7-year-old stepsister to have sex with as many as seven men and boys at a weekend party near their home.

Trenton police said Wednesday the child later put on her clothes and two strangers walked the crying girl home. She was treated at a hospital.

Police say the teenager, who stayed behind, also took money to have sex with others at the party in an apartment Sunday.

The older girl is charged with aggravated sexual assault, promoting prostitution and other crimes. Her name was not released because of her age.

Police are trying to track down the men and boys who attended the party.

The girls' parents reported them missing Sunday afternoon and police were at the home when the 7-year-old returned.

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I dont know about you all, but I just wonder as a society how much lower we can get.

Trenton police Capt. Joseph Juniak said Wednesday that the older girl started by taking money to have sex with several men at the party in a high-rise apartment. The teen then gave some of the money she had collected to the younger girl to let the men start touching her, Juniak said.

"It went from touching to straight out assault and rape," Juniak said. "They threatened to kill her if she screamed or told anyone."

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Juniak noted that the girls were not full-blooded sisters. He said they were either half-sisters or stepsisters, but whatever the case, they were still raised as sisters.

Juniak said police were initially called by the girls’ family because they believed the 15-year-old had run away from home and that she took the younger girl with her. He said the 15-year-old had exhibited some behavior problems in the past.

Police officers were at the family’s home that night after 9 p.m. when the 7-year-old returned without her older sister, and she told her mother that she had been raped, Juniak said. Police later located the 15-year-old, who relayed the same details regarding what had happened at the party, and she was arrested and charged.

Juniak said the party took place in a 13th-floor apartment in the complex at 620 West State St., where the 15-year-old met up with a couple of male acquaintances. He said the older sister then had sex with several party-goers for money in a bedroom, while leaving the younger girl unattended in the living room.

At some point, Juniak said, the older sister visited the 7-year-old in the living room and handed her a wad of money, telling her to let the assembled men and boys have sex with her.

“She tells the sister, ‘Let the boys do what they want to do,’” Juniak said.

Juniak said the older girl promoted and watched the acts perpetrated upon her sister.

Juniak said there appear to have been 12 to 15 people at the party throughout the night, and detectives are searching for anyone who may have been there. He said charges could be brought against everyone, not just those physically involved with the rape of the 7-year-old.

Anyone who was there could be charged for allowing it to happen, and any adults who had sex with the 15-year-old will be prosecuted for rape because of the girl’s age, Juniak said.

“We’re going to identify everyone who was in that apartment,” he said.

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I hope LE finds everyone that attended that party and charge them all with something. The 15 yr old should be locked up for a very long time.

It sure doesn't sound to me like the parents have a clue how to raise children, how to keep track of their children, how to say "No", and maybe they don't care.

No way in hell I would allow my 15 year old daughter to run around wherever she feels like. There is no excuse for this. None!

I think Id like to know a lot more about this family and the parents. Their standards and ethics. I think there is a lot more going on here.

TRENTON, N.J. — Police conducted a pre-dawn raid Thursday at a public housing complex where officials say a 7-year-old girl was gang-raped while her teenage stepsister got paid for it, and arrested 27 people on outstanding warrants.

The sweep on Rowan Towers was planned before the girl's attack, Trenton Mayor Doug Palmer said. Police hope the arrests will lead to tips to help them find those who assaulted the girl; otherwise, the arrests were unrelated to the case, he said.

"This is only the beginning," Palmer said. "We're not going to rest until that area is cleaned up so that decent people can live without the threat of fear and violence."

Police say the child's 15-year-old stepsister sold her to have sex with as many as seven men and boys at a party Sunday in a vacant apartment near their home. The stepsister was arrested and charged with aggravated sexual assault, promoting prostitution and other crimes.

Many of those arrested Thursday were women, who told The Associated Press the warrants were for minor infractions. Police did not immediately return calls for further details.

Residents said the assault was clearly at the forefront of police officers' agenda during the raid at the apartment building, a high-rise complex so dangerous that police are hired as security guards at night.

Tair Rivers, 27, said officers yelled, "What happened to the little girl?" as they arrested her and other women. Rivers was arrested for outstanding parking tickets, she said.

Rivers lives in 13-H, an apartment right across from 13-C where the party occurred. She said she was not home over the weekend but would not hesitate to tell police if she knew something.

"We all got kids," River said. "If we knew something, we would tell."
Police believe as many as a dozen people were at the party and say everyone in the apartment when the rape occurred could be legally culpable. There were security cameras at the complex and police said they were reviewing all available building surveillance videos.

According to police, the teenager and the 7-year-old were outside in the neighborhood Sunday when the older girl ran into two young men she knew who invited her to the party. The 7-year-old wanted to tag along because she was worried about the older girl's safety.

At the party, the 15-year-old starting having sex with several men for money and then gave the younger girl some cash to let a group of men touch her as she looked on, police said. It soon escalated to rape and the men threatened to kill the child if she screamed or told anyone, according to police.

The girl later put on her clothes and left the apartment; her older sister stayed. Two women found the child crying outside the apartment and walked her home.

The teenager's name was not released because of her age, but the county prosecutor plans to ask the court to try her as an adult. It was not clear who was representing the girl in juvenile court.

Interstate Realty Management Company, which manages the 15-story building, said about 150 people live there, and many of the apartments are vacant.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie on Thursday called the incident "deplorable" in his first public comments on the crime that occurred in the shadow of the New Jersey Statehouse.
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The 7 year old tagged along because she was worried about her older sisters safety.
Unbelievable

OMG Maybe the sweep will get those arrested talking. What kind of sick Men go to sex parties with little girls?

This is unbelievable...was there any information about the parents/guardians of these girls? I am not advocating going easy on the 15 year old, BUT what about her family, where were they and what about the men! The county prosecutor sounds tough, they're going to try her as an adult....they need to find those men, every one of them and put them away forever, not just a couple of years and release them with their name on a registry. :mad:

I wonder where the little 7 year old is now? I hope she is safe and getting major counseling and never has to see her sister or any of those horrible people in that horrible apartment again!! This is just sick!!

Police are investigating the brutal gang rape of a seven-year-old girl, who was “sold” by her fifteen-year-old step-sister, who allegedly stood counting her money and watching as the young child was assaulted by as many as seven men and boys.
According to police, the teen had been working as a prostitute herself, and while at a party she offered to get the child and have her passed around for sex.
It isn’t clear how many people participated in the rape, but there were at least seven, police say. They also are trying to establish how many of the dozens present saw the assault happen, and whether or not they will be charged.
In an unrelated raid that had been planned since well before the rape occurred, police arrested 27 people (most women) living in Rowan Towers.
They hope that the arrests will lead to information about the rape, and say that the officers were screaming “What happened to the little girl” as they raided the building.
Rowan Towers is a complex high rise in Trenton, New Jersey that is considered so dangerous that many refuse to even go in there. Armed police work as security guards over the place.
Police had planned the raid on anyone who has any kind of outstanding warrant, in order to make the place safer.
Of those arrested, the step-sister has been charged with aggravated sexual assault of a child.

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Rowan Towers at 620 West State Street, in Trenton, N.J., is shown on Wednesday, March 31, 2010. The building was the site of a party where police say a 15-year-old sold her 7-year-old sister to have sex with as many as seven men and boys. Police say the child later put on her clothes and two strangers walked the crying girl home. She was treated at a hospital. Police say the teenager, who stayed behind, also took money to have sex with others at a party in the Trenton apartment on Sunday. The older girl is charged with aggravated sexual assault, promoting prostitution and other crimes. Her name was not released because of her age.



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BJ in OR wrote:Rowan Towers at 620 West State Street, in Trenton, N.J., is shown on Wednesday, March 31, 2010. The building was the site of a party where police say a 15-year-old sold her 7-year-old sister to have sex with as many as seven men and boys. Police say the child later put on her clothes and two strangers walked the crying girl home. She was treated at a hospital. Police say the teenager, who stayed behind, also took money to have sex with others at a party in the Trenton apartment on Sunday. The older girl is charged with aggravated sexual assault, promoting prostitution and other crimes. Her name was not released because of her age.



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I am glad to hear about the serious charges against the 15 yr old. She needs to be under maximum supervision locked up some where. She is dangerous to others and herself.

A 15-year-old New Jersey girl is under arrest after allegedly taking her 7-year-old stepsister to an apartment where the younger child was gang-raped by as many as seven men as her sister not only watched but got paid by those who did it. "We're talking about a kid who told her sister to go into an apartment and let people rape her," said a police captain in Trenton, the state capital. "It's unfathomable."

The teen has been charged with aggravated sexual assault, promoting prostitution, and other crimes. Her name was not released because of her age, but the county prosecutor plans to ask the court to try her as an adult. She allegedly took the 7-year-old to a party Sunday and left her alone while she headed to a back bedroom to sell sex to several men. The older girl then handed her sister money and encouraged her to let the men touch her. "It went from touching to straight out assault and rape," said the captain. "They threatened to kill her if she screamed or told anyone."

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Where are the parents in all this? What do they have to say? How is this little 7 year old her step-sister? Where were the parents when this happened? Why doesn't the City of Trenton, along with the Trenton PD..close Rowan Towers?

There are way too many unanswered questions even though the media keeps posting about it. Let's get to the meat of this. It starts with the parent's!!! Did they know their 15 year old daughter was a hooker? If so, WHY would they leave their 7 year old daughter with her?

artgal16 wrote:I dont know about you all, but I just wonder as a society how much lower we can get.

I completely agree with you artgal! I keep thinking I've "heard it all"... and then another story comes along that just sickens me even more. This 7 year old child will be scarred for life by this extremely self-centered choice of her 15 year old step-sister! It seems that all the 15 year old cared about was the money... this child could have been killed!! Sadly, her innocence has been destroyed, and she will have a huge struggle to be a "normal" child now. I can't even imagine (as an adult) being gang-raped by seven men... the physical & emotional pain this child must have endured is unimaginable!!

Wrapitup wrote:Where are the parents in all this? What do they have to say? How is this little 7 year old her step-sister? Where were the parents when this happened? Why doesn't the City of Trenton, along with the Trenton PD..close Rowan Towers?

There are way too many unanswered questions even though the media keeps posting about it. Let's get to the meat of this. It starts with the parent's!!! Did they know their 15 year old daughter was a hooker? If so, WHY would they leave their 7 year old daughter with her?

I agree with you Wrap! The parents are ultimately responsible, as they should have been more aware of their 15 year old's activities. As for the 7 year old child, she needs to be put in a safe & stable home ASAP!! She will be needing lots of care & counselling for a long time. I am glad to hear that the 15 year old is being charged, and yet she needs help too! It is all so heartbreaking...

i agree! where are the parents in all this??
we as parents need to be on top of our children at all times! we need to know where they are at, with who and what are they doing! we can't turn our heads away or turn a blank eye at our children anymore!

I am just sick about this!! Everytime I think I've seen/heard/read it all, here comes something else. This is heartwrenching on SO many levels, but particularly the ruination of that innocent 7 year old baby's life. I pray that 15 year is tried as an adult, she knew what she was doing. Also, let's not be so quick to blame the parents, shall we? We dont know the whole story; maybe they were working? Lets reserve judgement on them till we know more. I am sure they are suffering enough as it is right now

New Jersey officials announced on Saturday six arrests in connection with the gang rape of a 7-year-old girl who investigators believe was sold for sex by her 15-year-old stepsister at a party in a Trenton high-rise last weekend.

The developments followed an intense, weeklong inquiry into what occurred on March 28 in a 13th-floor apartment at the Rowan Towers complex on West State Street, near the State Capitol. Officials said they expected to make more arrests in the coming days.

Investigators arrested one man, Gregory Joseph Leary, 20, of Trenton, on Thursday and charged him with raping the 15-year-old girl, whom the authorities did not identify. Another man Tiemear Lewis, 19, of Trenton, was also charged in the case, officials said.

Joseph L. Bocchini Jr., the Mercer County prosecutor, said his office would likely seek to try at least one of three juveniles who were charged, ages 17, 14 and 13, in adult court.

But the 15-year-old girl may have been more than a victim, the authorities said.

She also was arrested this week on aggravated sexual assault and other charges “for her role in allowing her 7-year-old sister to be sexually assaulted,” the police said in a statement. The girl was remanded to the Mercer County Youth Detention Center.

Trenton officials said that the 15-year-old is accused of first having sex for money herself, then accepting cash to let men touch the 7-year-old. That touching then led to rape by multiple men, according to the investigation, which is continuing, officials said.

At a news conference at the city’s police headquarters on Saturday evening, Mayor Douglas H. Palmer of Trenton said: “Good people came forward to try and get justice for this 7-year-old angel, who was brutally gang-raped by pedophile animals. Everyone that was responsible is still not arrested. Police won’t rest until we get every one.”

Officials said the two sisters went together to a party in the high-rise, where they were both assaulted.

The 7-year-old girl told the police she knew the party was trouble, but she went because she wanted to protect her sister, Mr. Palmer said. Both girls had been on the blotters of various child welfare services, he said.

The girls had been reported missing to the Trenton police at the time of the episode, Mr. Bocchini said.

Mr. Palmer said the 7-year-old met him at his office on Thursday, and he gave her a stuffed Easter bunny. But the family will soon be moved out of the area, he said, because “she will be stigmatized.”

Mr. Palmer said the girl told him: “Everybody’s staring at me. They know it’s me.”

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The 7-year-old girl told the police she knew the party was trouble, but she went because she wanted to protect her sister, Mr. Palmer said. Both girls had been on the blotters of various child welfare services, he said.

The girls had been reported missing to the Trenton police at the time of the episode, Mr. Bocchini said.

Well hell's bells. The 7 year old went to the party to protect her 15 year old stepsister who turned on her and took money for this little angel to be gang raped? I am stunned, sickened, disgusted and livid all at the same time!!

The girls were reported missing? By whom? The parents/mother/father? Where were they? Working? What are the family dynamics of these parents? I want to know more about them. I hope that 15 year old is tried as an adult and sentenced for a long, long time. And, that poor little 7 year old will live with what happened to her for the rest of her life while trying to protect her sister. It is evident that yes, she knew the party was trouble as she said. So, I would have to surmise she had been to other parties with her older sister. Oh, did I add that I am also mortified by this? In fact, there are no words to describe this outrage!!

lindamarie wrote:At a news conference at the city’s police headquarters on Saturday evening, Mayor Douglas H. Palmer of Trenton said: “Good people came forward to try and get justice for this 7-year-old angel, who was brutally gang-raped by pedophile animals. Everyone that was responsible is still not arrested. Police won’t rest until we get every one.”

Good for Mayor Palmer!! I appreciate his tough stance on this, and I hope that he follows through & catches all these "animals" that preyed on this innocent young girl. It is so heartbreaking!!

Wrapitup wrote: Well hell's bells. The 7 year old went to the party to protect her 15 year old stepsister who turned on her and took money for this little angel to be gang raped? I am stunned, sickened, disgusted and livid all at the same time!!

The girls were reported missing? By whom? The parents/mother/father? Where were they? Working? What are the family dynamics of these parents? I want to know more about them. I hope that 15 year old is tried as an adult and sentenced for a long, long time. And, that poor little 7 year old will live with what happened to her for the rest of her life while trying to protect her sister. It is evident that yes, she knew the party was trouble as she said. So, I would have to surmise she had been to other parties with her older sister. Oh, did I add that I am also mortified by this? In fact, there are no words to describe this outrage!!

I agree Wrap! This is a complete outrage & I also would like to know more about the parents. They must have known that the 15 year old was not a responsible "babysitter" for her step sister. Ultimately, however, the 15 year old was responsible for this crime, and she needs to suffer the consequences! Unfortunately, nothing will bring back this poor little girl's innocence.

And it continues to get worse as the story unfolds:

Stepdad defends 3 men in alleged gang rape of daughter
Apr. 8, 2010 03:08 PM
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TRENTON, N.J. - A horrifying case — a gang rape of a 7-year-old sold by her teenage stepsister to armed men — grew more bizarre when the girl's stepfather showed up outside the Trenton courthouse Thursday to say that three of the five accused men had actually tried to help the girl.

He was summoned to the courthouse by family members of the suspects, who have his phone number on speed dial, a seemingly strange alliance amid a crime that has inflamed a poor community.

"These three had nothing to do with nothing; I don't know why they locked them up," the stepfather said of Gregory Leary, 20; Timear Lewis, 19; and a 17-year-old whom authorities have not identified because of his age.

The Associated Press generally does not identify people alleging sex crimes and is not naming the stepfather to avoid identifying the girl.

In all, five men and boys have been arrested on suspicion of raping the girl. The other suspects are ages 13 and 14. The 15-year-old stepsister also has been charged with promoting prostitution.

Lewis is scheduled to make his first court appearance Friday. It was his mother who called the girl's stepfather, imploring him to come to the courthouse to talk to reporters. "Please tell them my son did not do this," Tracy Lewis said. "He was there but he didn't touch anyone."

Police say there is DNA evidence of the crime, but the prosecution may hinge on the word of a little girl, her troubled stepsister and the other men and boys who watched the crime.

According to police, the 7-year-old was prostituted out by her 15-year-old stepsister, who watched as she was raped by as many as seven men and boys at a party at the Rowan Tower apartments on March 28. As many as a dozen people were at the party, held in a vacant apartment in the crime-plagued public housing complex not far from the New Jersey Statehouse

Investigators said that soon after arriving, the older girl took money to have sex with several men at a party, including Leary. The teen then gave some of the money she had collected to the younger girl to let the men start touching her. It soon escalated to rape, police said, and the men threatened to kill the child if she screamed or told anyone, according to police.

The girl later put on her clothes and left the apartment; her older stepsister stayed, police say. Two women found the child crying outside the apartment and walked her home, where police were waiting because the girls' parents had reported them missing.

The girl told police what happened and her sister was soon found and arrested. "She should have never took my daughter there," the father said of his 15-year-old.

While the father thinks that three of the men may have tried to get the young girl out of the apartment, he doesn't dispute the fact that she was raped by several men.

"My daughter said these guys were trying to help her," he said. "If you had a gun pointed to your head, you wouldn't be able to do nothing, either."

The confusing case had already strained relations among police and residents and management of the troubled Rowan Tower downtown apartment building where the crime took place.

"They think because we are poor that they can ruin our lives," Tracy Lewis said.

Following the case, police and the mayor held news conferences and said they were taking the case personally. Days later, police conducted a pre-dawn raid on the public housing complex, arresting 27 people who lived there on warrants for violations such as outstanding parking tickets.

In a contentious meeting, the police director and building managers talked with residents, vowing to increase security at a building that already uses uniformed Trenton police as nighttime doormen.

Mayor Doug Palmer met with the 7-year-old girl and her family in his office last week and gave the girl a stuffed bunny rabbit for Easter. He said the family is getting counseling and indicated it may be permanently relocated away from the city.

Leary's lawyer suggested Thursday in court that the child had been pressured to make up the story.

"She was not raped, was not gang-raped," Robin Lord said, adding that the girl's memory is "forever tainted" because she's been given toys, gifts and money.

Leary is charged with aggravated sexual assault and endangering the welfare of a child. He made his first court appearance Thursday and was ordered held on $500,000 bail. He is also accused of statutory rape; police and his attorney say he has admitted having sex with the 15-year-old.

Assistant Prosecutor said Jennifer Downing said Leary denied having sex with the younger girl. However, she said several witnesses at the party told police they saw Leary "on top of the 7-year-old," raping her.

Police have said they expect additional arrests.

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Now I'm thinking, is there even more to this situation? Did this dad or stepdad or whatever the heck he is know the 15yo had been prostituting herself. Had he been encouraging it? Even if these older boys didn't rape her, THEY WERE THERE! and at their age, you can't tell me that they were unsuccessful in helping get those 13-15yo boys away from her.

They all need to be locked up if they were in the apartment at the time this was happening. After reading this, I believe there is more to this story.
The mayor does need to handle this personally and they need to get to the bottom of it and not let this get out of hand as its starting to. I dont think any of us here know how terrible its become in many of the projects around the country. The loss of jobs, the drugs and the breaking up of families and the rise of gangs with access to cash and guns is making it harder for the decent people who are really trying to raise their children right be able to suceed. Its a mess.

artgal16 wrote:They all need to be locked up if they were in the apartment at the time this was happening. After reading this, I believe there is more to this story.
The mayor does need to handle this personally and they need to get to the bottom of it and not let this get out of hand as its starting to. I dont think any of us here know how terrible its become in many of the projects around the country. The loss of jobs, the drugs and the breaking up of families and the rise of gangs with access to cash and guns is making it harder for the decent people who are really trying to raise their children right be able to suceed. Its a mess.

I agree!!! :me to:

I am sure the little 7 year old had to endure a rape kit so that would show right there what happened.

As far as the step-father, something is not right. Why would he defend these idiots? And, is he the step-father to the 7 year old and to the 15 year old? OR is he the biological father to the 15 year old and trying to save his daughter's hide?

Gregory Joseph Leary

He looks like a thug! Poor little girl being raped by these monsters!! I sure hope she is in a good foster home right now & is being treated by a good therapist. It will take a long time for her to heal from the physical & emotional scars!