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Couple Indicted for Training a 12-Year-Old Girl to be a Dominatrix

By David Lohr

On Monday, the office of John F. Wood, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a federal grand jury had indicted a man and woman on charges that the couple allegedly trained the woman's young daughter to be a dominatrix. According to a news release issued by Wood's office, former Blue Springs, Mo., residents Todd B. Barkau, 35, of New York and an unnamed 44-year-old woman have been charged by a federal grand jury in a seven-count indictment. "The federal indictment alleges that, from Jan. 1, 2000, to Feb. 20, 2005, Barkau participated in a venture to entice a minor to engage in commercial sex acts," the news release reads. "Barkau is also charged with one count of selling a child for sexual exploitation, two counts of inducing a child who was in his custody and control to engage in sexually explicit conduct for the production of visual depictions, one count of advertising and publishing a notice of images that involve the sexual exploitation of a child, one count of the enticement of a child to engage in prohibited sexual conduct and one count of transferring obscene material to a minor...continue to full post

Full post as published by Criminal Report Daily on May 14, 2008 (boomark / email).