Mother faced mother, pimping trial told

Victim’s mother testified she wanted girl’s belongings

A “determined” mother whose daughter was allegedly beaten, kidnapped and robbed by three other teenaged girls testified that she confronted the mother of one of the accused on her Ottawa doorstep last June.

She wanted to reclaim items that had been stolen from her daughter: an iPod, a bus pass, a debit card, a purple Adidas jacket, makeup and hair extensions that had been ripped from her daughter’s head, she said.

“Her mother responded with shock and surprise. She flashed her eyes open wide,” the woman testified. “She denied that her daughter had anything — that her daughter wouldn’t do that.”

At the time, she didn’t know that her 16-year-old daughter was allegedly delivered to two johns and forced to perform oral sex for money, she testified. “I wasn’t aware of the sexual assault. She (her daughter) didn’t want to talk about it,” she said. “She couldn’t talk about it.”

The three teenaged girls have pleaded not guilty to charges that include human trafficking, assault and making child pornography. Two of the accused were 15 and one was 16 at the time of the alleged crimes in the spring of 2012.

The mother testified that she later returned to the same home with a broken screen door to try again to retrieve her daughter’s belongings, and called police to join her because she was scared of the pit bull inside.

“I was determined. I wasn’t going to stop until I got them back,” she said. Though one of the accused teens handed over some items, the mother said, she was directed to the home of the oldest accused to get the rest. The woman who answered the door at the second home warned her of bedbugs and cockroaches but that didn’t stop her from going inside to search, she said.

While sorting through a mess of clothes in the accused’s room, a “helpful” child walked up to her and handed over her daughter’s hair pick, she said. She did not find her daughter’s expensive hair extensions or “sentimental” jewelry.

“It had to do with the death of a pet,” she said.

She testified that she had “no reason for concern” when her daughter left home around 6 p.m. on Wednesday, May 30, 2012, accompanied by the oldest teen accused in the case. Her daughter was on probation and had a 9 p.m. curfew on weekdays. Though her daughter regularly bullied her and could be verbally abusive, she always called home if she was running late, she said. That night her daughter didn’t call. She received a text at 11:34 p.m. that said “sorry mommy.” “I thought it was strange,” she said. “She would get angry when I referred to myself as mommy. She’d say, ‘I’m not a little girl.’”

When her daughter came home just after midnight, she was sobbing, her mother recalled. The teen put an ice pack on her nose, where she said she had been repeatedly punched.

She told her mother that the same girl that had been inside her house a few hours earlier threatened to “slit my throat” if she called police.

The daughter is expected to testify on Monday.