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A 15-year-old New Jersey girl prostituted herself and her 7-year-old stepsister to have sex with as many as seven men and boys at a weekend party near their home in a crime-plagued neighborhood, police said.

Trenton police Capt. Joseph Juniak said Wednesday that the older girl started by taking money to have sex with several men at the party of a high-rise apartment. The teen then gave some of the money she had collected to the younger girl to let the men start touching her, Juniak said.

"It went from touching to straight out assault and rape," Juniak said. "They threatened to kill her if she screamed or told anyone."

The child later put on her clothes and left the apartment; her sister stayed. Two women found the child crying outside the apartment and walked her home.

The teen is charged with aggravated sexual assault, promoting prostitution and other crimes. Her name was not released because of her age. She was being held in a juvenile detention facility in Mercer County, but police did not know whether she had an attorney.

A spokeswoman for the county prosecutor's office, Casey DeBlasio, said prosecutors would seek to have the teen tried as an adult.

Police believe as many as a dozen people were at the party. They are trying to track down the men and boys who attended and are reviewing building surveillance videos and additional arrests are expected.

Police said the girls were outside Sunday afternoon in the neighborhood when the 15-year-old ran into two young men she knew who invited her to a party at the apartment. Rather than leave the 7-year-old behind, the teen took her along.

At the party, the 15-year-old starting having sex with several of the men for money and then gave the younger girl some cash to let a group of men touch her, Juniak said. He would not say how much money was exchanged.

The girls' parents reported them missing late Sunday afternoon. Police had just arrived at the home when the 7-year-old returned, Juniak said, and told her parents what happened.

The child was treated at a hospital, and police said child protective services is working with the family to get her psychological help.

Trenton Mayor Doug Palmer called the crime "sickening" and said it was among the worst he's seen in his 20 years as mayor.

"The police are taking this personal," the mayor said. "I know there's a place in hell for all the people that participated in this and I'm sure they will get there."

"Personally as a father with a 7-year-old daughter, I can't imagine the horror," Palmer added.

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I thought that was the cops' job, to lie to suspects

Officials: Cops coerced boys in NJ gang-rape case

By BETH DeFALCO, Associated Press Writer Beth Defalco, Associated Press Writer � Wed Apr 14, 10:21 pm ET

TRENTON, N.J. � The two youngest boys charged with gang-raping a 7-year-old girl last month may have been pressured into confessing and implicating others in the case, according to two people with firsthand knowledge of the police interrogations.

Two men � 20-year-old Gregory Leary and 19-year-old Timear Lewis � and three boys, ages 13, 14 and 17, have been charged with rape at the March 28 party. The girl's sister, who police say sold her to the men during a party in a vacant apartment, was charged with promoting prostitution, aggravated sexual assault and other crimes.

Four days after the party, the 13- and 14-year-old who live near the gritty public housing complex where police say the assault took place were brought in for questioning.

Kevin Main, who represents the 17-year-old and who has reviewed the police interrogations of the boys and the 15-year-old girl, told The Associated Press that investigators put words in the boys' mouths and led them to believe they wouldn't get in trouble.

"Whatever they are agreeing to, it is with the expectation that they go home when they are done," Main said.

Trenton police spokesman Sgt. Pedro Medina declined to comment on the investigation Wednesday other than to say that more arrests were expected. A spokeswoman for the Mercer County prosecutor also declined to comment.

Last week, the 7-year-old's stepfather said Lewis, Leary and the 17-year-old tried to help the girl and were not involved in the rape.

Police have not released the names of the juveniles. The AP generally does not identify people alleging sex crimes and is not naming the 15-year-old or her parents to avoid identifying the 7-year-old.

The younger boys were shown pictures and asked to sign the ones of people they recognized from the party, Main said.

"It's clear which police want them to sign and which one they don't want them to sign," Main said. "At no time did they mention my client's name. When officers brought up my client's name, they got an 'uh-huh' out of one of the kids."

Main and another official with direct knowledge of the interrogation said police pitted the boys, who are good friends, against each other during interviews and told them that the other saw him engaged in sex acts with the child.

The official spoke only on condition of anonymity because the official fears retaliation from police.

According to the official, the 13-year-old boy cried for nearly half the interview and repeatedly asked for his mother.

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[Hyeon Een]

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^Let me ponder that a little and I'll get back to you. While I don't have any babies to take care of, I did have quite the weekend.

Hopefully I can provide a well thought out response as opposed to a gut-level visceral reaction.

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What sort of party has 13 year olds and 20 year olds together? That's just messed up there.

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Just for the record, I'm still working on this. No B.S.

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