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With Smack, winner of the Guardian Prize for Fiction,
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Grandmother charged with trading girl, 15, to get crack
By Andrew Smith
When a Mastic woman showed up one night last August at the nearby
Poospatuck Reservation looking for crack cocaine, all she had with her
were some stolen boxer shorts and her granddaughter, Suffolk authorities
said.
She found a drug dealer known as "Jo-Jo? and offered the boxers in
return for some crack, but he refused. She asked to buy drugs on credit,
but again he refused, a law enforcement source said. Then, Jo-Jo looked
at the granddaughter, 15, and said, "She looks cute.?
"She traded her granddaughter to this man for crack, and allowed him to
rape and sodomize her,? Assistant District Attorney Patricia Brosco said
during the woman's arraignment Friday in Riverhead. Newsday is not
naming the woman, 54, to protect the granddaughter's identity.
Authorities say they believe they know who Jo-Jo is and hope to charge
him with rape and sodomy soon.
After getting her drugs, a law enforcement source said the woman shoved
her granddaughter toward Jo-Jo, telling her to go with him and to give
him a kiss. Jo-Jo took the girl about 10 yards away behind a house and
raped her, the source said.
"The little girl was screaming for grandma, and grandma didn't come to
her aid,? the source said.
Instead, the grandmother came to Jo-Jo's aid, the source said. After the
assault, Jo-Jo made the girl urinate, which can wash away DNA evidence
of sexual assault. Then, at their Mastic home, the grandmother made the
girl shower, further removing any physical evidence, the source said.
"The girl and"...»»
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