“Federal prosecutors unsealed an indictment Monday accusing a man and woman of training the woman’s child to be a dominatrix, selling her sexual services and photographing some of the acts. U.S. Attorney John Wood said the case is unusual in that a parent has been charged with the commercial sex trafficking of his or her own minor child. Todd B. Barkau, 35, of New York state, and the 44-year-old mother were charged in the seven-count indictment. They once lived together in Blue Springs, Mo., where the sex business was allegedly run. ‘Barkau obtained control of a 12-year-old girl and he groomed, trained and forced her to become a sexual dominatrix,’ Wood said at a news conference in Kansas City on Monday. Barkau was arrested near Niagara Falls and had an initial court appearance Saturday in Buffalo, N.Y., Wood said. The mother was arrested Friday in Dallas and was scheduled to make an initial court appearance Monday… The mother’s name is not being published to protect the identity of the daughter, who is now 20 years old… The indictment says Barkau began training the girl in 2000 when she was 12, and forced her to engage in sex acts with him and with other men. According to the indictment, he also had the girl watch pornography on the Internet as a teaching tool. Barkau is accused of creating a business out of the couple’s Missouri home when the girl was 14 and marketing her as a 19-to-20-year-old dominatrix on the Internet for about two years. The mother is charged with encouraging and participating in the venture, the indictment says.
trafficking, Wood said.” — MSNBC (US)

(Thanks to Furpo for the link.)

While people like to imagine that children are sugar, spice, and everything nice, it is also true that children can be venomous and cruel. Perhaps it was something like this that Mr. Barkau and the girl’s mother had in mind when training the young thing to serve as a dominatrix. In a very sick way, it’s a natural fit. Who is more capable than a twelve-year-old girl of making the most cutting comments?

Then again, adolescent girls aren’t accustomed to kicking deviant businessmen in the balls. Nor do they want to graduate from selling lemonade at roadside stands to leading creeps around on dog leashes for spare cash. Nor do they want to trade in their school pictures for pornography shoots. If the young victim in this case had any reservoir of cruelty in her heart, probably its true target was her mother. Think about it. If the mother helped to pimp out her own daughter, what must that girl’s life have been like anyway? Being a hooker will make the news, but what about the thousand bits of abuse and malfeasance the mother may well have inflicted on her before the dominatrix thing ever happened?

To look at it another way, the whole story puts you in a difficult position. One of the weird things about perversion is that, when you first approach it, you have the sensation of setting aside your morality. You want to break all the rules, taste the forbidden pleasures you’ve been dreaming of. But once you’ve done that, and once you begin to contemplate the billion acts of selfish cruelty that perversion causes people to wreak on others, it’s difficult to leave your morality by the wayside. Do you contemplate the spectacle of a child pimped out by her own mother and, almost in spite of yourself, find yourself side by side with the most fundamental of moralists? If so, how do you reconcile that with your interest in perversion in general? How do you reconcile that with your own perverse lusts? Is it possible to be a moral pervert? Or is that a contradiction in terms, like an ethical killer?

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