Tasmania has been the butt of Australia’s incest joke community for as long as I can remember. The island itself is pretty isolated and nothing much seems to happen there.
For some Tasmanians this is a big draw card. A hearkening back to simpler times, living in an natural pristine environment and escaping the bustle of Australia’s main cities.
For others it’s just a convenient excuse to hop into bed with 12 year old girls.
I knew when I saw this particular news story all I was going to be left with was the bitter taste of chlamydia in my mouth. Yet I couldn’t stop reading…
A Tasmanian man has admitted prostituting a 12-year-old girl at his home and sharing the proceeds with the girl’s mother.
The Mercury reports the man, 51, acted as the girl’s pimp last year while she had sex with more than 100 men at Glenorchy.
The man, Gary John Devine put an ad in a local newspaper advertising ‘Angela‘ who was ‘new in town‘. Rates were $100 for the half hour and $50 more if you wanted to ride bareback.
So what drives a 12 year old girl into prostitution?
Well mid last year ‘Angela’s’ mother complained to her boyfriend close male friend Devine that she had no money. Now instead of Angela’s mother getting a job, claiming to be 1/16th Aboriginal or simply just whoring herself out, Devine, Angela’s mother and Angela herself sat down for a chat and came to the conclusion it was in their best interests that Angela become a prostitute.
When I was twelve my parents wouldn’t even let me decide on what hairstyle I was getting… I can only imagine what it’s like having a conversation with your mother about becoming a prostitute.
‘So son, we’ve got no money… it’s time for you to grow up and become a prostitute.’
‘…I’m sticking my pee pee into the what now?’
Not to be stereotypical or anything but at the root of the prostitution ring was drugs. Presumably this is why Angela’s mother had no money in the first place. Both Angela and her mother’s boyfriend close male friend Devine were also addicted to drugs too. Infact from the sounds of it most of the proceeds of the business wound up funding the trio’s drug habit.
Talk about your messed up childhoods…
‘so sweetheart what was your childhood like?’
‘well by the age of twelve I’d stretched out my vagina to the size of nineteen football fields, done hard drugs and worked as a prostitute. Now what color did you want for the wedding cake again?’
‘…’
‘…honey?’
The kind of worrying thing (well one of many worrying things really), is that ‘Angela’ was quite the success. Initially starting off in a hotel room she quickly graduated to turning tricks at Devine’s unit.
The business ran from Thursday to Sunday and on average Angela saw 100 men a week. The business started in July and it wasn’t until November that police caught up with them. Between July and November there’s 18 weekends which comes in at a staggering 1,800 men.
And I don’t mean staggering as in ‘holy crap that’s a large number’, I mean staggering as in how the hell do you put a 12 year old’s vagina through that? I’m also not being metaphorical… that’s literally got to be a staggering experience for her.
Even more worrying is the fact that there’s so many men in Tasmania willing to shack up with a twelve year old for money. The advertisement sold Angela off as an eighteen year old but cmon, when was the last time you saw an eighteen year old who looked twelve?
…and this is coming from a guy who lives in Taiwan where it seems puberty has skipped half the female population.
I’m not saying there weren’t any repeat customers in the 1800 men who slept with twelve year old Angela but really, not one person thought to themselves ‘you know what, there’s no grass on this pitch. Something isn’t quite right here’.
While at this stage it’s unknown just who the clientel were at least one high profile customer has been named and shamed. Tasmanian independant MP Terry Martin is currently facing court over child pornography allegations;
It is alleged that on or about September 10, the 51-year-old politician took photographs of a naked 12-year-old girl performing a sex act.
Underage prostitutes, drug addicted pimps, mothers who consent and pedophile politicians;
Seriously Tasmania, what the hell?