NYPD Detective Accused of Pimping Teen

[Ghost in the Machine]

NYPD Detective Accused of Pimping Teen
Published: 1/31/08, 6:25 AM EDT
By MARCUS FRANKLIN

NEW YORK (AP) - A 13-year-old runaway returned home with a horrific account of being forced into prostitution by the kind of person who should have instead come to her aid: a city detective.

The teenager thought she was being offered a job dancing at parties, according to prosecutors. She soon found herself a captive of Wayne Taylor and a woman who forced the teen to prostitute herself at parties, with the detective threatening to make her sell herself on the streets if she tried to escape, prosecutors said.

"This case is every parent and every child's worst nightmare," Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown said in a statement.

Taylor, and Zelika Brown, the woman accused of working as his partner, pleaded not guilty Wednesday to kidnapping, promoting prostitution, assault and endangering the welfare of a child, the district attorney's office said.

Taylor's lawyer, Peter Brill, told reporters his 35-year-old client "has a right to have the case proven against him beyond a reasonable doubt." Randall Unger, an attorney for Brown, told Newsday, "It may turn out that there is a great deal of exaggeration in this case."

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[Ghost in the Machine]

1. kickin' back to the top

I guess it didn't shock or anger anyone else enough...

[CatWoman]

2. it shocks and angers me

:kick:

[Ghost in the Machine]

3. thank you...

[RB TexLa]

4. I think most people understand what criminals in police departments are capable of doing.

Not saying all police officers are criminals at all. But the ones that are have really run out of things they can do that would shock me.

[mitchum]

6. Hell, I think this would shock even James Ellroy

talk about a dirty cop

[Richard Steele]

5. What a fascinating phrase: "A great deal of exaggeration".

If the girl's story is an "exaggeration" of some simpler truth,
how could that "truth" possibly be legal, moral, decent or proper
in any way?

No matter how you spin it, this is a police officer who encountered
a 13-year old runaway...and didn't do what he was supposed to do in
such a situation.

Methinks there's no way this guy ISN'T an utter piece of shit.