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A DRUG-addicted mother has been sentenced to 51 years to life behind bars for trading her 11-year-old daughter for sex to feed her heroin habit.
“I can honestly say that, in three-and-a-half years on the bench, this is by far the worst thing that has come before this court,” Judge Leslie Ghiz of Ohio’s Hamilton County Pleas Court said.
April Corcoran, 32, pleaded guilty to raising money to feed her heroin addiction by pimping out her 11-year-old daughter to her drug dealer, Shandell Willingham, reported the Cincinnati Enquirer.
With Corcoran’s blessing, 40-year-old Willingham raped, sodomised and forced the child to perform oral sex, sometimes videotaping the abuse, according to the indictment against Corcoran.
Corcoran pleaded guilty to multiple counts of complicity to rape, human trafficking and child endangerment.
Judge Ghiz said Corcoran showed no mercy and that she has never apologised to her daughter.
“I don’t know that you grasp the damage that has been done to this poor child.”
Because Willingham preferred children younger than 11, prosecutors said Corcoran dressed her daughter up to look younger than she was, reported WLWT TV.
“Little did we know, I guess, her drug dealer had a propensity to film little kids when they are performing sexual acts on him,” Assistant Hamilton County Prosecutor Katie Pridemore said at the time of the plea.
“She didn’t have the means or the cash to buy her heroin anymore from her drug dealer,” said Pridemore. “So she offered up her child in return.”
After her daughter was brutalised Corcoran would give her heroin as a “reward”.
“Sometimes this defendant would give a little bit of heroin to her daughter,” Pridemore told the court. “The daughter didn’t want it but she said, ‘you’re a good girl. You did the right thing.’”
The girl vomited each time and this happened four times between February and June 2014.
Now 13 the girl is living out of state with her father and stepmother. She is taking medication, has had suicidal thoughts and is undergoing medical care, judge Ghiz said as reported by the Cincinnati Enquirer. There’s doubt she will be able to cope.
“I saw my granddaughter. I heard her small voice,” the girl’s grandmother said in court. “It was horrific. How could she (Corcoran) do this? I don’t know if my granddaughter is going to be able to have a normal life.”
In June 2014 authorities first learned of the case when the girl moved in with her father, who reported it.
The alleged dealer, Shandell Willingham, was also charged and is awaiting a hearing.
Source: http://www.news.com.au/world/north-...e/news-story/767a9ec6591cb4d9c75a02d5011d14d9
“I can honestly say that, in three-and-a-half years on the bench, this is by far the worst thing that has come before this court,” Judge Leslie Ghiz of Ohio’s Hamilton County Pleas Court said.
April Corcoran, 32, pleaded guilty to raising money to feed her heroin addiction by pimping out her 11-year-old daughter to her drug dealer, Shandell Willingham, reported the Cincinnati Enquirer.
With Corcoran’s blessing, 40-year-old Willingham raped, sodomised and forced the child to perform oral sex, sometimes videotaping the abuse, according to the indictment against Corcoran.
Corcoran pleaded guilty to multiple counts of complicity to rape, human trafficking and child endangerment.
Judge Ghiz said Corcoran showed no mercy and that she has never apologised to her daughter.
“I don’t know that you grasp the damage that has been done to this poor child.”
Because Willingham preferred children younger than 11, prosecutors said Corcoran dressed her daughter up to look younger than she was, reported WLWT TV.
“Little did we know, I guess, her drug dealer had a propensity to film little kids when they are performing sexual acts on him,” Assistant Hamilton County Prosecutor Katie Pridemore said at the time of the plea.
“She didn’t have the means or the cash to buy her heroin anymore from her drug dealer,” said Pridemore. “So she offered up her child in return.”
After her daughter was brutalised Corcoran would give her heroin as a “reward”.
“Sometimes this defendant would give a little bit of heroin to her daughter,” Pridemore told the court. “The daughter didn’t want it but she said, ‘you’re a good girl. You did the right thing.’”
The girl vomited each time and this happened four times between February and June 2014.
Now 13 the girl is living out of state with her father and stepmother. She is taking medication, has had suicidal thoughts and is undergoing medical care, judge Ghiz said as reported by the Cincinnati Enquirer. There’s doubt she will be able to cope.
“I saw my granddaughter. I heard her small voice,” the girl’s grandmother said in court. “It was horrific. How could she (Corcoran) do this? I don’t know if my granddaughter is going to be able to have a normal life.”
In June 2014 authorities first learned of the case when the girl moved in with her father, who reported it.
The alleged dealer, Shandell Willingham, was also charged and is awaiting a hearing.
Source: http://www.news.com.au/world/north-...e/news-story/767a9ec6591cb4d9c75a02d5011d14d9
