A Missouri mother has been charged with prostituting her severely disabled 14-year-old daughter with the mental capacity of a toddler in exchange for money and cocaine.
Renee Collins, 49, was charged on Tuesday with second-degree trafficking of a child and first-degree child endangerment.
Her boyfriend, 44-year-old William Thomas Jr, was charged with first-degree rape. They are both jailed in Boone County.
Court records say Collins' daughter has cerebral palsy and autism, and she is also partially deaf and uses corrective leg braces.
She was taken into protective custody in July 2017 and told authorities that her mother would 'loan' her to 'bad men,' including Thomas.
According to a probable cause affidavit cited by
ABC17, law enforcement officials launched an investigation into Collins and her boyfriend after getting a report from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, saying that a teenage girl was being left in a room at The Welcome Inn on North Providence Road in Columbia with strange men for long periods of time.
A witness then came forward on July 7, 2017, telling police that Collins had been offered cocaine in exchange for allowing two men to have sex with her severely impaired daughter.
Once she was taken into protective custody, the victim told investigators that at least on one occasion, 'bad men' inserted a needle into her arm and injected her with 'medicine' after sex, according to the station
KOMU.
The girl, who according to a caseworker has the mental capacity of a 2- of 3-year-old child and requires constant care, also allegedly accused Thomas of sexually assaulting her.