Temple Hills Maryland, United States
42 year old foster father Shelby Lewis accused of raping his foster daughter and pimping her out in Washington DC.The foster child was one of the youngest of Lewis' alleged stable of prostitutes, according to court documents. She started working for him when she was 12 and continued to do so for two and a half years. The detective testified that Lewis had sex with his foster child and another who worked for Lewis for three years, starting when she was 13.
Location
United States · Temple Hills Maryland · 2009 (location generalized to protect survivors)
Response & intervention
Lewis is scheduled to plead guilty in dederal Court on Thursday afternoon (Jan. 7th), court records show
Lewis was first taken into custody after D.C. police arrested two of his alleged victims -- ages 14 and 16 -- while they walked the 14th and K streets track in Washington DC, court documents said. Soon after their arrests, police located a 13-year-old girl who had been reported missing to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Authorities said Lewis had been prostituting her for three years.
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