Couple 'trained 12-year-old girl as dominatrix'

Source: MSN Australia

A US couple have been charged for training a 12-year-old girl as a sexual dominatrix, and forcing her into prostitution. Authorities said Todd Barkau, 35, and the 44-year-old mother of the girl, who is now 20, face charges of commercial sex trafficking for allegedly running a sex business, the Associated Press reports.

"Barkau obtained control of a 12-year-old girl and he groomed, trained and forced her to become a sexual dominatrix," lawyer John Wood said. The New York man began training the girl in 2000 and forced her to have sex with him and other men, the indictment said.

The girl was allegedly sold on the internet as a 19 to 20-year-old dominatrix when she was 14 by Barkau, who started a sex business in their Blue Springs home. Photographs of the teenager engaging in sexual acts were also circulated online. The mother of the girl has been charged with "encouraging and participating" in the business.

The young girl was forced to watch pornography on the internet as a "teaching tool", according to the indictment.



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Don't know if there is any relation to this:

U.S. 'sex culture' driving child prostitution
http://www.onenewsnow.com/Culture/Default.aspx?id=77444

Beyond sick really.

I mean the American Family Association is so well known around DU for their objective analysis.

Generally speaking, their analyses of the origins of sexual violence and exploitation stem from the same patriarchal framework that perpetuates the abuse in the first place, but this doesn't mean if conservatives are rightly appalled at child sexual exploitation that progressives should, conversely, minimize it.

we are not going to play the game of our kids are better than theirs.

Some twisted stuff connected to the twisted selling of a 12 year old.

Sick people in this world....

BDSM is a perfectly acceptable way to express one's sexuality so long as it is practiced by consenting adults in a safe and sane environment.

It can be highly destructive and seems to mask underlying sexual trauma.

But that has been my experience...everyone has different experiences.

People engage in a tremendous variety of sexual activities that do nothing for me, and some of them certainly strike me as damned odd to boot. But that is hardly license for that sort of disparragement of their sexual orientations.

This sort of thing has no more to do with sadomasochism as normally practiced that the rape of a twelve year old girl by an man in his thirties has to do with heterosexuality as normally practiced.

From my experience it is connected with unhealthy lifestyle and psychological trauma.

Feel free to celebrate it but I have seen too much damage from it. Sorry.

There are radical feminist critiques that press that claim regarding heterosexuality in women.

How far do want to press this?

Generalizing rashly from personal experience is always chancy, but when done in relation to human sexuality, it is a mug's game....

Re-Traumatizing,drives some people into S/m,trying to resolve trauma by reliving it so they can control it..or something.


To me, real love should not come with bruises,humiliation ,restraint marks, cuts and pain..to me that is abusive it's not love.

I am astonished how often people when faced with abuse don't see it.



http://gainscenter.samhsa.gov/atc/text/papers/trauma_paper.htm
http://books.google.com/books?id=pzu_ew0AP48C&pg=PA189&lpg=PA189&dq=retraumatization&source=web&ots=ONngncxOF3&sig=ymp3bDEqqzgeCK2XZ7GCH0sYhzE&hl=en#PPA85,M1

Of course, as you say, that is *your* particular observation, and so has very little in the way of general validity.

How many times has a 12 year old been abused by someone not into BDSM? Do you make the claim that maybe people that only engage in vanilla sex are more warped than the rest of the population?

:eyes:

in this and other articles I've read on this story? Instead of saying she was raped, they're stating she was 'engaging in sexual acts" and was "forced to have sex". It's not sex if it's forced, it's rape.

SEX in general and our 'Sexual Cultural' for some sick bastards rape of a 12 year old. Instead of saying what is, they want to spin the story to reflect what is not....Does that make any sense? I hope I am coming across correctly..

If what Bernie Ward is pleading guilty to (sending illegal sex pictures to his dominatrix) was the equivalent of getting picked up for driving drunk ...

Then what these people have done is more like dropping acid, shooting heroin, hijacking a busload of schoolchildren at gunpoint and driving the bus through the middle of the police station yelling "Everybody DIE!!!"

Now watch, these shitheads will get the same 5 years in jail that Bernie is looking at.

is not emotionally mature and if she was"trained" how much younger did she begin? The people that abused her I wish they'd be executed.
I'd like to see every rapist,psychopath and pedophile dead.Because I hate them for what bad things they choose to do that harms people.
Some people do not deserve to live because their bad choices and cruelty ruin the lives around them.

Look into his history as a priest for starters.

I don't believe that sex trafficking can be tackled without an understanding of psychopathy. Wringing our hands and saying 'why, oh why do they make these bad choices' (the traffickers) will not advance the fight against such trafficking. I would say that the vast majority of pimps and madams are psychopathic.

(An odd side point is that psychopathic prostitutes are not as harmed by prostitution as non-psychopaths are. Their sex has never progressed past the sex-play of children (with orgasms thrown in), sex as soul expression or communication is forever foreign to them. They cannot "Lucia di Lammermoor" themselves as non-psychopathic prostitutes often do.)

a true professional dominatrix is NOT a prostitute, at least in the US. My assistant has worked P/T in the BDSM for hire business (at a "dungeon"). The business was licensed and very discreet, and the neighbors all were happy to have them located where they were (but were NOT happy about the strip club down the street - whole different sort of clientele).