Parents allegedly kill daughters pimp

[Quantum Windbag]

Want to bet they get acquitted?

Attorneys for the San Francisco couple are calling it "every parent's nightmare."

Barry Laprell Gilton and Lupe Mercado watched, dismayed and helpless, as their 17-year-old daughter was lured away from home by a known Compton gang member, who wound up as her pimp.

The couple tried to persuade the teenager to break ties with 22-year-old Calvin Sneed. They sought help from law enforcement — to no avail — and later added the girl to several missing and exploited children registries, according to their lawyers. And that, their lawyers said, was where they left it.

Prosecutors contend they did far more.

In a criminal complaint that has stunned the couple's friends and relatives, the San Francisco district attorney's office said Gilton and Mercado plotted to kill Sneed. One attempt on the night of May 27, along Vineland Avenue in North Hollywood, failed. A second, not far from the couple's home near San Francisco's Candlestick Park, succeeded.

Parents accused of killing daughter's pimp in San Francisco - latimes.com

 

[Trajan]

"but there is no direct evidence that we've been made aware of."


good, hope it stays that way.

 

[Katzndogz]

Their daughter wanted to go, there isn't much they could have done. Girls decide to become prostitutes every day.

It seems, though, that people are taking the law into their own hands more and more. The law has become untrustworthy. People don't expect justice anymore so they are doing it themselves. This is just an indication of societal breakdown.