News: A 5-year-old girl was sexually assaulted while her mother was prostituting herself in the next room at a Pleasant Grove home, police said today.
The mother is now charged, as is the convicted sex offender police say assaulted the young girl.
Pleasant Grove investigators launched their probe in December after family members of the girl told them she had reported being inappropriately touched, said Lt. Danny Reid. Family initially reported the incident to Birmingham police, but investigators later determined it happened in Pleasant Grove.
They picked up the mother, a 34-year-old Birmingham woman, and she showed them the house where the assault happened. AL.com is not naming the mother, even though she is charged, because to do so would identify the young victim.
She admitted she was “turning tricks” and had her daughter with her. The incident happened Dec. 8.
Reid said there were two men at the home. While the mother was in one room with a man, another man was sodomizing the girl. According to court records, the mother heard her daughter crying and went to check on her and found the assault in progress. She failed to report it to authorities.
