"She said it might be gross, but it will only take 10 minutes," the girl told police. (quoted from The Capital)
10 minutes? 10 entire minutes? Man, folks sure have plenty of time on their hands in Bloomsbury Square.
The Capital reports about a resident of Bloomsbury Square who pimped her daughter in exchange for crack cocaine. What the article did not do was describe Blooomsbury Square as the lovely, waterfront, brick-clad public housing project where generation after generation of decent, upstanding Annapolis families raise their children. As if the virtually free, waterfront homes we built there at taxpayer's expense were not enough public assistance for this "entitled" resident, she sold her daughter into sexual service to satisfy her up-the-nose habit. And the fact that she will serve prison and be fined (and from where will she get the $45,000?) merely means that she will go to yet another publicly subsidized brick structure to serve time on our dime, but not likely waterfront this time.
The young victim was courageous enough to go to the State Police and turn her mother in. (CP can't help but wonder how exciting the news would have been had the "John" been a state elected official who voted to build Bloomsbury Square. Ohh,,,,)
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4 Comments:
Paul:
Will this resident of bloomsbury square be evicted from Public Housing or will the HACA board somehow defend her actions and say she was "not a resident", or "was not on the leasse", and allow her to continue committing crimes while living on the taxpayers?
The history of crime and public housing would show the latter is more probable, and sadly to say, that doesn't help anyone.
Scott: She's going to another public housing facility, this time with an 81 year lease. That was clear from the posting and The Capital story, of course you may use and interpret those facts in any way you wish. CP
Paul:
My only point is that until someone sends a clear message to these folks that drugs, prostitution, and the other crimes resulting from them are not going to be tolerated and start evicting people without exception, this will continue, and the good people who need help and live in public housing will continue to suffer.
It sounds reasonable to me, but as long as we live with the mentality that public housing is acceptable, indeed desirable, rather than focusing efforts on transforming and ultimately ending it, we will keep using these "band-aids" to try to cure this cancer.
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