Men accused of pimping underage girl in SeaTac with backpage.com
Oct 8, 2012, 12:58 PM | Updated: 2:31 pm
An ad on backpage.com lead police to an underage girl and two alleged pimps.
Undercover officers have been scanning backpage.com where they have found minors being used as prostitutes.
After the Lakewood Police received a tip Tuesday, undercover detectives met a 16-year-old girl at a SeaTac Hotel. Officers took her into custody and during an interview she told them 28-year-old Eugene Young and 25-year-old Claude Hutchinson had pimped her out to 20 to 30 different men.
She told police she feared Young and Hutchinson because they beat another girl who refused to do what they told her to do.
It was the girl’s second encounter with law enforcement. Fife police had arrested the girl Sept. 28 on suspicion of prostitution but she could not return home after her release. “When she tried to return home her mother didn’t want her and unfortunately, there is no law against bad parenting,” said Pierce County Prosecutor Mark Lindquist.
With no other place to go, police said she then returned to the alleged pimps.
Both suspects are accused of rape and promoting the sexual abuse of a minor. Young and Hutchinson are currently being held on outstanding warrants in King County and are expected to be arraigned Monday.
