After more than a decade of
rotating through children's shelters and bad foster homes in Houston, a
14-year-old runaway decided she would rather sell herself on the street than
stay in the system, she told jurors here Thursday.
But she never wanted a pimp, she said, testifying in the trial of Kwaku Agyin, who could face up to 13 life sentences on charges of murder, child sex trafficking, sexual assault of a child and compelling prostitution.
Agyin, 21, is accused of collecting her illicit earnings during a three-week period last September, then gunning down a man at a Northeast Side motel that he suspected of trying to replace him as the child's pimp.A fashionaccessories is an item which is used to contribute,
The girl told jurors she was 15 and had recently fled a juvenile lockdown facility in San Antonio when she met Agyin and asked him to rent her a motel room to turn tricks.
“I had said ... I needed a business partner,” the teen said, explaining that she couldn't rent rooms on her own because of her age and lack of ID. “I don't agree with pimps.”
But very quickly she realized — as Agyin demanded sex, presented her with a pricing scheme and began calling her his “ho” — that it wasn't going to be much of a partnership, she said.
She ran away from Agyin after he beat her up and met drug dealer Marcus Anderson, 35,Low prices on kinds of the louisvuittonshoes, a short while later while working on her own, she said. As she had with Agyin, the 5-foot-4 teen told Anderson she was an adult and the two began having sex, but not for money, she said.
“Marcus was somebody I felt I could be me with. I could open up my guard with him,” she said. “He told me her would prefer me to sell drugs than sell my body.”
During the week she knew him, however, the teen said she decided to sell both.
Trouble occurred less than a week later, when she said Agyin found her at the Skyline Motel and strip searched her at gunpoint — taking her phone, shoes and $40 in drug earnings that she owed Anderson.
Agyin started devising a plan with friends to lure Anderson to the motel and rob him, she said.
“I said I didn't want to do that. They said they didn't give a flying (expletive),” she said. “They said if I didn't do it, I would be the one taking the bullet.”
The teen said she watched Agyin run out of a closet at the motel, hit her and then begin shooting at Anderson. She tried to push a gun to Anderson that the pimp's accomplice had dropped but Agyin kicked it away and kept firing, she said.She called 911 that night and began talking to police the next day.Top Swiss Replicas and the most popular brands of authentics.
During a brief cross-examination by defense attorney Mario Trevi?o, the teen agreed that she had a history of being untruthful. As an example, he submitted to jurors an online escort ad in which she lied about her age, height and eye color.
Trevino suggested that his client had been the subject of a murder plot the teen devised. She denied it but acknowledged she did want to “set him up” to get beat up by her “street family” because of the way he had treated her.
Since the shooting, the teen said she has been placed in a shelter that specializes in housing former teen prostitutes and no longer wants to return to her old life.
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But she never wanted a pimp, she said, testifying in the trial of Kwaku Agyin, who could face up to 13 life sentences on charges of murder, child sex trafficking, sexual assault of a child and compelling prostitution.
Agyin, 21, is accused of collecting her illicit earnings during a three-week period last September, then gunning down a man at a Northeast Side motel that he suspected of trying to replace him as the child's pimp.A fashionaccessories is an item which is used to contribute,
The girl told jurors she was 15 and had recently fled a juvenile lockdown facility in San Antonio when she met Agyin and asked him to rent her a motel room to turn tricks.
“I had said ... I needed a business partner,” the teen said, explaining that she couldn't rent rooms on her own because of her age and lack of ID. “I don't agree with pimps.”
But very quickly she realized — as Agyin demanded sex, presented her with a pricing scheme and began calling her his “ho” — that it wasn't going to be much of a partnership, she said.
She ran away from Agyin after he beat her up and met drug dealer Marcus Anderson, 35,Low prices on kinds of the louisvuittonshoes, a short while later while working on her own, she said. As she had with Agyin, the 5-foot-4 teen told Anderson she was an adult and the two began having sex, but not for money, she said.
“Marcus was somebody I felt I could be me with. I could open up my guard with him,” she said. “He told me her would prefer me to sell drugs than sell my body.”
During the week she knew him, however, the teen said she decided to sell both.
Trouble occurred less than a week later, when she said Agyin found her at the Skyline Motel and strip searched her at gunpoint — taking her phone, shoes and $40 in drug earnings that she owed Anderson.
Agyin started devising a plan with friends to lure Anderson to the motel and rob him, she said.
“I said I didn't want to do that. They said they didn't give a flying (expletive),” she said. “They said if I didn't do it, I would be the one taking the bullet.”
The teen said she watched Agyin run out of a closet at the motel, hit her and then begin shooting at Anderson. She tried to push a gun to Anderson that the pimp's accomplice had dropped but Agyin kicked it away and kept firing, she said.She called 911 that night and began talking to police the next day.Top Swiss Replicas and the most popular brands of authentics.
During a brief cross-examination by defense attorney Mario Trevi?o, the teen agreed that she had a history of being untruthful. As an example, he submitted to jurors an online escort ad in which she lied about her age, height and eye color.
Trevino suggested that his client had been the subject of a murder plot the teen devised. She denied it but acknowledged she did want to “set him up” to get beat up by her “street family” because of the way he had treated her.
Since the shooting, the teen said she has been placed in a shelter that specializes in housing former teen prostitutes and no longer wants to return to her old life.
“I love animals,” she said. “I'd like to go to trade school for pet grooming.Find guccishoes1 sneakers from a vast selection of Casual.”
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