Couple accused of selling teenager for packet of cocaine

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Richard Luscombe in Miami
Monday August 22, 2005
The Guardian


FBI agents have thwarted an alleged plan by an Ohio couple to sell a 15-year-old girl in exchange for a packet of cocaine.

Police say Pamela Tilley and Gregory Lowery drove 70 miles from their home to hand the girl over to a drugs dealer in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where she was destined to become a child prostitute.

"This is the worst type of crime that can be perpetrated on a child, to turn the child into a sex slave," said US attorney Mary Beth Buchanan. "They were selling this child to an adult male in Pittsburgh in exchange for drugs."

Ms Tilley, 45, and Mr Lowery, 44, were arrested after police officers found them asleep with the victim and a 13-year-old girl in a car in Pittsburgh's North Side in the early hours.

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