Mom Pimped Out Her Daughter for Drugs
Thanks (I think) to reader Brian Elias for this pointer about Athena Stoddard, a Dallas suburbanite mom convicted for selling her 14-year-old daughter’s body to support her own drug habit. The article doesn’t say what the woman was snorting, shooting, or otherwise ingesting. The details that are included are gruesome enough. Stoddard actively rounded up men from apartment complexes - sometimes checking the girl out of school so she could “work” - and turned tricks herself while waiting for the rapists to finish with her flesh and blood. The going rate was $20 to $50; on some days, her daughter had to suffer abuse at the hands of 15 men.
The girl now lives with her father, who had no role in the abuse. Stoddard has been sentenced to a cumulative total of 110 years in prison. The DA’s asking the sentences to run consecutively instead of concurrently. Count me on the side of “lock her up and throw away the key”.
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6 opinions for Mom Pimped Out Her Daughter for Drugs
Angel
Aug 26, 2005 at 7:04 pm
OMG I’m just sick :(
Jail is WAY too good for her. Let’s start with public flogging and work from there.
ann adams
Aug 26, 2005 at 8:24 pm
Does anyone really think this is an isolated incident? Not I.
I hope her father gets that little girl lots of help quickly. It will take her years, if ever, to recover from that kind of abuse.
I didn’t have the heart to go back and read the original article but I wonder what happened to the men who were standing in line waiting their turn. Were they even cited? Maybe I should read it after all.
ann adams
Aug 26, 2005 at 8:31 pm
I read it - at least they got two of those slobs - I still wonder about the rest of them.
I don’t really care what an adult does with her body but there has to be a special place in whatever hell exists for the parent who pimped her out and the men who were complicit.
She had to run away to get help? Didn’t anyone notice?
Jay Allen
Aug 26, 2005 at 11:12 pm
You know, Ann, I thought that myself (why didn’t anyone notice). But I figured that, without knowing the family situation, I wasn’t in a position to judge the dad. I imagine he’s asking himself that question every hour of every day.
Brian
Aug 27, 2005 at 6:53 am
I only wish that somehow she could have found the strength to seek help after the first time rather that the 150th. I can’t even imagine the horror this child suffered. Children are so trusting and loving of their parents, even when things are bad. This woman is a monster. There is a special place in hell for her. I also hope there is a special place in cellblock ‘D’ with a cell mate named ‘big bertha’.
ann adams
Aug 27, 2005 at 1:23 pm
Jay, I should have been more clear. Was she going to school? If not, why didn’t the school investigate? If she was, didn’t she send any danger signals to teachers or counselors? Did they have neighbors who noticed the foot traffic or were the neighbors part of the foot traffic?
Rhetorical questions - you probably don’t know anymore than I.
So many times awful things happen because people don’t notice or are afraid to become involved. I wasn’t thinking about the dad so much as society in general allowing these things to happen.