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Thursday, April 03, 2008

An update on the 14-year-old stripper case

2 charged in case of underage stripper

The woman who allegedly gave the teen pills and drove her to the strip club (where the girl presented a fake ID and was hired) is the girl's AUNT. Tina G. Hobbs and her boyfriend, Jimmy R. Kiger, have been arrested on charges of an unlawful transaction with a minor. The girl apparently argued with her mother over spending money, which she did not get. Hobbs said the mother knew about the stripping, but the police say there's no evidence that is the case. Another relative supposedly tipped off the mother and stepfather, who went to the club and found their daughter sitting at a table in dancing clothes. They didn't explain what Hobbs' boyfriend had to do with the whole affair.

The paper identified both the relationship of the woman to the girl and also her mother by name, so I guess it would be easy to tell who the girl was. I'm not going to identify the mother here, though. Hopefully the girl gets away from drugs and this sort of influence, and this can be chalked up to a youthful indiscretion. She's lucky nothing worse happened.

(Shaking head.) Gods, I'm old, I have the urge to go tut...tut.

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