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https://www.usatoday.com/gcdn/-mm- /7a1fca8eb8eb3e5ad767aa640707b579ce6cd38a/c=0-0-744-421/local/- /media/2018/06/06/USATODAY/USATODAY/636638663430908401- WXIA.jpg?width=660&height=374&fit=crop&format=pjpg&auto=webp
Morgan Summerlin
FULTON COUNTY, Ga. — A woman who let men rape her young daughters
in exchange for money will spend 20 years in prison.
Morgan Summerlin, 25, was sentenced to 20 years in prison with 10
more on probation. She is not eligible for parole, according to the
prosecutor. Summerlin faced 140 years in prison.
Summerlin pleaded guilty in Fulton Superior Court in May.
As she was led out of the courtroom and to a jail cell, Summerlin
blew kisses to family members who sat and watched the sentencing. A
few minutes earlier, the woman’s grandfather told a judge there had
been an additional incident involving a 12-year-old family member –
which prosecutors said was similar to the two child rape cases. But
they declined to describe it in detail in public.
It was enough, though, for Judge Constance Russell to sentence
Summerlin. Her defense attorney said the defendant was herself
sexually exploited and attacked as a child – hinting at a
continuing cycle of abuse.
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The young victims in this case are now living with one of the
family members who attended court this afternoon. The children, 5
and 6-years-old, told other adults that Summerlin took them to
visit men who would then rape and molest them.
One was 78-year-old Richard Office. The girls told adults that they
visited Office at his home in Palmetto, Ga., where he touched them inappropriately, kissed them and raped one of them. In exchange,
Office gave them each $100, which their mother took from them.
According to the Fulton County District Attorney, the girls were
told to call him "Pop" and that he gave drugs to their mother.
The young victims in this case are now living with one of the
family members who attended court this afternoon. Summerlin pleaded
guilty to charges of first-degree cruelty to children, enticing a
child for indecent purposes and trafficking a person for sexual
servitude.
Office was convicted of rape, child molestation, trafficking a
person for sexual servitude, enticing a child for indecent purposes
and sexual battery. He was sentenced to life in prison without the
possibility of parole plus 146 years to run concurrently.
A second man, Alfredo Trejo, was convicted of rape, child
molestation, sexual battery, enticing a child for indecent
purposes, trafficking a person for sexual servitude and aggravated
child molestation. He was sentenced to 25 years in prison and then
life on probation.
The grandmother of the victims was also arrested in the case. She
pleaded guilty to cruelty to children in the second degree for
knowing they were being sexually abused and not protecting them.
She was sentenced to five years but one was commuted to the time
she had already served and the rest is being served through
probation.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2018/06/06/georgia- mom-allowed-men-rape-young-daughters-sentenced-jail/676170002/
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