Victim in Dungeon Case Comes Forward in Florida. A mother is alleging that Linda Ann Weston held her daughter captiveâtorturing and sexually abusing herâafter the girl ran away from home. The victim’s parents say that when their daughter escaped she was only 98 pounds and covered in cigarette burns. [6 ABC]
Philly Live! Project Details. New details suggest that in addition to an anchoring sports bar, Comcast-Spectacor’s Philly Live! project will bring six other bars and restaurants and a 20,000-square-foot outdoor event space to South Philly. [Philadelphia Business Journal]
Strip Club Manager Changes Story of Vince Young Scuffle. Accusations have been tweaked in a lawsuit against Vince Young over an altercation at a Dallas strip club nearly a year and a half ago. A manager at the club is now alleging that Young punched him when he wouldn’t sell the quarterback $8,000 in one-dollar bills. [Deadspin]
Philadelphia Massage Parlors: A Client’s View of Prostitution
October 24, 2011
It has felt natural to him ever since. Many of the encounters are funny. “Wendy” doesn’t meet him at the donut shop on time, so he phones, and she says, “Chester, I’m sorry. Something came up. I’ll be there soon. Give me ten minutes.” (It turns out she was having problems with her landlord.) And then she is disorganized about getting a room, and when they are settling in, it turns out she forgot condoms and invites him to come with her to buy them. He loses interest, but she gets her pay. With “Gwendolyn” as with many of the women, the conversation turns to how she got into the business. She explains, “I was working at a massage parlour, but I hate giving massages, so I figured I’d give this type of work a try.” Brown asks, “A legit massage parlour or a rub-and-tug?” and she replies, “A rub-and-tug, but even at rub-and-tugs you’re expected to give massages, a …
Philadelphia Escorts: ‘Paid gay sex’ smear of Medford mayor
October 24, 2011
… This is absolutely crazy. I have no idea who this person is,” Mayor Chris Myers told the Times. “Obviously, we’re dealing with a crackpot and someone who is pissed off at me in some way. There are crazy people.”
The accuser, who has not identified himself, made the accusation through an anonymous web site, in which he ran photos of a man who looked like Myers lying in bed wearing nothing but his glasses and a pair of blue Calvin Klein underwear. Other photos included Myers’ personal ID.
The website — which ran on a free hosting service called webs.com — is no longer functional. However, a version of the web site cached in Google’s archives said the accuser had been hired out through an escort service called Rentboy.com, and had met Myers at the Fairmont Hotel in Newport Beach in October 2010.
See the full article from “Medford Sun”
Philadelphia Escorts: Missing Baby Linked to Dungeon Case
October 24, 2011
Philadelphia Union Will Face Houston Dynamo in Franchise’s First Playoff Appearance. The Union will host Philly’s half of a home-and-home match-up at PPL Park on Sunday. Then, on November 2nd, they’ll head to Houston. The team with the most goals over the two games advances to the next round. [The 700 Level]
City Council to Weigh Business Tax Options. Today, City Council will hear detailed proposals for business tax plans that would aim to give relief to city-based firms and attract new companies to Philadelphia. [CBS 3]
Sir Charles Speaks at Renaissance Academy. A teacher at the school met Barkley at a gym and asked him to speak to the students at the school because she believed he exhibited many of the core values taught to students. Like spitting on people, soliciting sex from prostitutes, drinking and driving, and throwing people through plate glass windows? [Daily Local]
Philadelphia Escorts: Where in hell is Little L?: Is the 2-year-old another victim of alleged sadist …
October 24, 2011
Then, shortly before Christmas, Weston packed up her belongings and disappeared, McGill said. A little later, Weston’s daughter, Jane McIntosh, showed up at the McGills’ home and told them that she was taking the toddler to a birthday party and would return.
She never did.
“We waited and waited, but we never saw Little L again,” Chevelle McGill said.
Now McGill and her husband, Robert, are worried that Little L is in danger.
“I just want to know where she is,” McGill told the Daily News last night, as she looked longingly at the toddler’s face on a video she’d filmed. “I have to know she’s all right.”
But when it comes to Weston, nothing is right. She is accused of stealing Social Security checks from four people she hardly fed and locked in a fetid, sub-basement dungeon in a Tacony apartment building.
Relatives say that she beat her siblings and forced them to have sex with each other or prostitute themselves.
Philadelphia Adult Entertainment: ‘Calling Her Evil Is Speaking Nice,’ Says Brother Of The Philadelphia Dungeon …
October 23, 2011
More horrors have emerged from the depths of the Philadelphia dungeon where four mentally-challenged adults were chained up — as details of incest, prostitution and drug abuse surface, RadarOnline.com has learned.
The brothers and sisters of the alleged ringleader, Linda Ann Weston, revealed the torment that they endured at the hands of their sadistic older sibling on Thursday, ABCNews.com reported.
“She would force my younger brothers and sisters to have sex. She would have sex with my other brothers and sisters,” one brother, who was too terrified of 51-year-old Weston to be named, told WPVI-TV.
“She said, ‘Look, make them have babies, we can get more money.’”
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One sister told how she was forced out onto the streets to work as a prostitute when she was just 11 to supplement the family income.
Philadelphia Strip Clubs: Want some votes? Put a Trader Joe’s in downtown West Chester
October 23, 2011
The woe with Joe’s is that it’s a haul to get there from here. The closest to West Chester is up Route 202, and frankly you take your driving record in your hands when you head north on Route 202 through East Whiteland and Tredyffrin. Police who need practice on their radar gun proficiency tests view Route 202 the way aspiring gunslingers in the Old West viewed a line of bottles set up along a fence. The words “fish in a barrel” come to mind. The alternative is to leave the state of Pennsylvania and venture into Delaware, which I understand comes with a price of admission.
And not to be smug about it, but Media has a Trader Joe’s right downtown. To my mind, nothing says “superb culinary distinction” less than the words, “capital of Delaware County.” If the community that brought us the stripper on the Upper Darby Fire Co.’s hook-and-ladder truck can have a Trader Joe’s, why not West Chester?
14 men arrested in Norristown prostitution sting
Published: Friday, October 21, 2011
Fourteen men, including one from Bridgeport and one from King of Prussia, were arrested for allegedly soliciting sex from an undercover Norristown policewoman Friday evening.
After receiving numerous complaints from residents in the 600 block of West Main Street in September, Norristown police targeted the area and have cited about 30 suspects for a variety of offenses, according to Norristown police Chief Russell Bono.
“Some of the residents complained of drunk and disorderly conduct, and we put an operation together,” he said. And some saw “obvious signs of prostitution” on the block, though no one reported actually seeing sex acts.
On Friday, the female officer walked the street in the vicinity of West Main and Knox streets for about four hours during the sting operation.
See the full article from “Main Line”
Philadelphia Escorts: Time for new reaction to ‘oldest profession’
October 22, 2011
At water coolers across the region, two aspects of the Downtowners club frat party have legs: the ages of the 10 women arrested (the oldest was 51) and the fact that no “johns” were charged. Some see an inequity in the fact that the ladies’ photos were paraded in the press, while most of the men in attendance remain anonymous and uncharged. (The pictures have also provided plenty of fodder. As a buddy of mine snickered, “You can tell who charged $30 and who charged $100.”)
Of the three guys who were arrested, two were club members allegedly acting as bartenders in the absence of a liquor license, and the third was charged with promoting prostitution. As to why no “johns” were handcuffed (at least, not by an officer), The Inquirer’s Allison Steele has reported that police believe they lacked evidence to charge the men – the same reason why many of the women weren’t arrested either. At the time of the bust (pun intended), there were said to be as many as 50 men and about 20 women in the clubhouse. Dozens of men seen by cops intermingling with the ladies were not charged.
Philadelphia Escorts: Creole Choir a bicultural showcase | Philadelphia Inquirer | 2011-10-18
October 22, 2011
The choir is powerfully plugged into Haitian music, both the very oldest and the latest. Popular Haitian songs, such as “Fey,” by RAM, “Wongolo,” by Boukman Eksperyans, and “Neg Anwo,” by Boukan Ginen, all made their way into the program. All showed combinations of Haitian Carnaval dancing, newly reworked ancient rhythms of mizik razin (old-style roots music), counterpoint and call-and-response, expertly and happily delivered by classically trained singers.
The Creole Choir’s experience is just as much for the emotions and gut as it is for the ears and eyes. “Mangaje,” and “Marasa Elu” told stories of tragic figures of the past (slaves) and present (abandoned children).
“Tande” and “Neg Anwo,” on the other hand, were protest songs, but their delivery was full of exuberance, passion, and pride.
The members of the group showed distinct personalities; a fun version of this showed up in dance with the dynamic between Dalio Arce Vital and Fidel Romero Miranda; it was like contrasting Richard Pryor and Jim Brown, court jester and pimp daddy, Bouki and Malice.