The victim, who also was forced by the couple to work as a dancer in local strip clubs, escaped her enslavement after she was hospitalized for a heart attack suffered during a torture session, the indictment alleges.Edward and Marilyn Bagley, of Lebanon, Missouri, each faces a maximum penalty of life in prison without parole if [...]
The Early American Libertine26 Mar 2011 01:21 pmDuring the War of Independence, deference to authority was shattered, a new urban culture offered previously forbidden pleasures, and sexuality was loosened from its Puritan restraints. Nonmarital sex, including adultery and relations between whites and blacks, was rampant and unpunished. Divorces were [...]
Dennis Henry, 51, of Wheatland, formerly the postmaster of Nevada, Mo., is one of five men who allegedly forced a mentally challenged female victim into sex work, transported her across state lines for sexual activity, and tortured her.Henry allegedly would torture the victim for hours in a trailer home located in Lebanon, owned by Edward [...]
Women’s health issues•I don’t know how long it takes to do some of the very nice special-topic series you do, but I think there might be time going into Breast Cancer Awareness Month to make it “Women’s Health Awareness Month.” There are so many issues. You’ve touched on abuse and prostitution, and there’s a whole [...]
Sidenote: Solo birdwatching in India can attract a variety of unwanted attentions. A prostitute joined me walking the park in New Delhi. This adventure lasted about 15 minutes; she lost interest and wandered away when I explained, testing the depth of her professed interest in birds, how many species of eagles could be identified in [...]
… TAXI DRIVER is a classic that should be experienced again in a movie theater,” said Jim Amos, president, Sony Pictures Releasing. “This film is an important part of our studio’s rich history and it is a responsibility and privilege to restore films like these so future [...]
A Missouri prison inmate and a Kansas City woman have been indicted on federal sex trafficking charges.
Eric Gathings, 36, of Columbia, and Brandy Key, also known as Brandy Wheeler, 39, allegedly trafficked both a minor and an adult for prostitution in 2008 and 2009.
Gathings, who is serving an unrelated prison sentence for forgery and unlawful [...]
Bagley and Cook are among five men charged with conspiring to commit sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion. Bagley is accused of taking in a mentally deficient woman as a teenager, then forcing her to perform in strip clubs and letting the other four defendants torture, mutilate and sexually abuse her.…The woman allegedly held [...]
Some familiar assumptions of the Wild West definitely apply to early Kansas City. For instance, plenty of people carried six-shooters on their gun belts. In gambling halls, they played faro and chuck-a-luck, and on the river levee saloon strip, known as “Battle Row,” loud men squeezed in and threw back whiskey all night long. A [...]
