Strip Club Sues 7th Grade Stripper
A strip club in Texas that hired a 14-year-old as an exotic dancer says it was swindled and is suing the seventh-grader and her parents.
The girl allegedly exposed her breasts while working at Cheetah Club in Corpus Christi, a violation of state law. Alan Yaffe, the club’s attorney, said the club didn’t know the girl was a minor and disputed the alleged sequence of events that led the teenager to work there in the first place.
“She came (into the club) with 6-inch stiletto heels and a miniskirt and looked just like a model from a Miss America’s contest,” Yaffe said.
Authorities say Leslie Campbell, 48, kidnapped the girl in San Antonio in March, took her to Corpus Christi and sexually assaulted her over the course of a week. He then allegedly gave her a false identification and forced her to strip at the club.
Yaffe called the story bogus, and the club is suing Campbell, the girl and her parents for unspecified damage in a lawsuit filed last week. It also wants a judge to declare that the club didn’t intend to hire a minor.
“There was no real kidnapping,” Yaffe told the San Antonio Express-News. “We’re the victims here, sir. My clients are the victims.”
Campbell was in a Nueces County jail on charges of aggravated sexual assault and aggravated kidnapping. It was not immediately clear Saturday if he had an attorney.
Police also arrested Jeffery Shawn Martinez, a manager at the club, on charges of employment harmful to a minor and sexual performance of a child. He was released on bail. Martinez’s attorney, Fred Jimenez, said his client is not guilty. Jimenez said the girl looked “very mature.”
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Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission Sgt. John Mann scoffed at that characterization.
“I’ve seen this young lady’s picture, and I assure you she is a 14-year-old seventh-grader,” Mann said. “I personally think any reasonable and prudent person could tell you that is an underage girl.”
Authorities say the girl eventually escaped from Campbell and has been reunited with her parents in San Antonio.
Yaffe said the club has also sued Corpus Christi Police Chief Mike Walsh because Walsh issues permits for sexually oriented businesses in the city. A police spokesman declined comment to the newspaper, saying only that the lawsuit speaks for itself.
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« Previous 1 2 3 4lmao where the hell does a 7th grader get time for that?….na but 4real though, this is very messed up and all the adults involved needs to be punished to the fullest extent of the law…….
[thought] “Just when you thought there was hope” *sigh*
~I think that a girl at such a young age needs better maternal/paternal guidance in her life. And I don’t know if it was a kidnapping or not but the police will investigate that one for sure. The club owner/manager is at steak for this one, fake ID or not I’m sure that she had some questionable immature characteristics about her…that should have made him wonder!!!~
The girl’s parents and the girl ought to have their ass whup. That’s all I have to say.
i agree that the girl is the only victim here…if she is 14 and in 7th grade then obviously there are other problems with her…kids are so impressionable…especially young girls…when they get their heads filled with bulls**t lies by men they usually believe them…ive never been to a strip club…but if what other people are saying is true about not doing checks on the girls…then its not like they could have known…its not hard to put on a little make up and change your look to be more mature…i think the real guilty ones here are her parents…they should have better control over their kids…where were they in this whole situation?
WTF!!!!! HOW DID THIS EVEN HAPPEN. SEE THAT’S WHY AMERICA IS SO MESSED UP. DAMNIT DO THEY KNOW THE MEANING OF DOING A BACKGROUND CHECK. SMMFH. SEE WHAT MONEY MAKE PEOPLE DO. AND WHY WAS HER LIL ASS THERE IN THE FIRST F*KING PLACE? WHERE WERE HER PARENTS AT? I HOPE THEY SHUT THAT PLACE DOWN.
WTF! Why didnt that club do the right backround check? I blame every damn body for letting a cute face and nice ass and tits do the judgement call. tisk, tisk. And as fas as the kidnapping, Iono about that one..
I AGREE IF THE OWNER OF THE CLUB WOULD HAVE WENT ABOUT IT THE RIGHT WAY AND CHECK ID AS SURPOSED TO THEN THIS WOULD NOT HAVE TAKEN PLACE. ITS THE OWNER FAULT THAT THEY DIDNT DO WAT THEY SURPOSED TO DO.THE LAW SUIT WOULD NOT WORK.
Ok well why is this girl 14 an in the 7th grade??? When I was 14 i was in High School. Somethin is super wrong about this whole situation!!!
How could this idiot say “THERE WAS NOT REAL KIDNAPPING… WE ARE THE VICTIMS HERE, SIR, MY CLIENTS ARE THE VICTIMS…” What a selfish ass. This CHILD is the ONLY VICTIM HERE, not the pervy weirdo’s who spend their day watching women take off their clothes. I hope the judge throws this idiot out of the courtroom on his ass……
SHE ESCAPED – Yaffe – only did what he thinks will save his life from his new prison mates!!!! Claim lawsuit!!! Buddy it won’t work – watch!
This nonsense happens daily – the only time we take notice is when it’s happening directly to us or our “loved ones”…sad truth – what will tomorrow bring – another pimp to push up on her and all the hers, hims out HERE like them!!!
Stay safe people – “loved ones”!!!
SKHM ~ Hauhet
The club is probably run by them damn Arabs.Look at the owners name “Yaffe”.They don’t care about jack just exploiting blacks for our money and dignity.
really shocked at some of these comments all im gonna say is that its the clubs fault if they took precaution to check their employees age this wouldnt have happened but obviously they dont so they are at fault i wouldnt be suprise if there are other underage girls working at that club
this is foolish…..no matter how “mature” a 14 year old visually LOOKS, there had to be signs that she was young. Were her mannerisms and was her vocabulary that of an adult? SMH…..this is why IQ tests should be administered for most “adult” jobs
Have you not seen how 14 year old girls are looking these days. The club should have did a background check, so it’s on them.
First, I hope that the girl is back in school. The club, not the 14 year-old, should be sued! Guide her, and make sure she stays her head in the books. Second, the book should be thrown at dude making her do those despicable and sick things. That’s someone’s daughter you’re doing that to. Last, the club should be closed down! There are respectable strip clubs, and that’s not one of them. If it was, a underaged young lady wouldn’t be stripping period! End of discussion.
lol…wow..
Did they confirm that this girl was black? Seems like everyone’s jumping to conclusions. I never read a race. I don’t just assume when I read things, but maybe I overlooked that part.
6-23-2009 12:44 am: whoever posted that is an IDIOT! Doesn’t matter WHY she’s there, the fact is she’s UNDERAGE, and therefore it is ILLEGAL to have her there, despite her “look”. Blame that on all the additives and hormones in the McDonald’s and junk we SHOVE down a kid’s INNOCENT throat, and call it nourishment. K-Mart at least verifies things like age, criminal history, and eligibility to work in the U.S before they hand you a smock and let you behind their register, so WTF was your point? Nobody asked this walking garbage to care about the girl, per se (which he SHOULD, it’s the HUMAN thing to do), rather just do what is known as DUE DILIGENCE! Use his head for more than taking a dump! You too! Human trafficking is a REALITY in this country and worldwide, targeting the vulnerable members of society, i.e young girls/young boys. THAT’S where their innocence has disappeared to, in case you cared to wonder..SMH
Lol! Reality is stranger than fiction. I don’t see how the owner couldn’t have discovered her real age. A standard background search, using her social security number, would have revealed that information. lol.
its not that dark in the strip club…..needs to be closed for good….wake up black people
And yet another great moment in de-evolution for Blacks!! Hooray!!
A 14yro girl who is STILL in the 7th grade and a strip club suing her bc they falsely believed she was of legal age!! I mean, if the girl had a fake ID on her, what’s the point of even doing background checks on your employees nowadays?? Psh! There’s no time to do that, you’ve got money to make on that pole!
Again, another great moment in African Americans moving backward!
LMAOOOOOOO OK FIRST OFF THIS “lil” b***h and i use the term lil loosely still 14 in tha 7th grade come on she prolly was turning trick b4 she got”kidnapped” and her parents just said fuk it and let her do wut she want but funny as fuk im with tha club owner sue that “lil” tick!!!