This is sort of disturbing considering its only 4 hours away from me.
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NEWS 8 EXCLUSIVE
DALLAS — She's just 13 years old, a middle-schooler who is now facing charges involving a serious crime.
Police arrested the girl at a local nightclub where she was allegedly bringing other young girls to dance and to serve as prostitutes.
Investigators said the 13-year-old lured other girls to Club Metropolis, enticing them with the promise of money and even forcing some of them to dance and sell their bodies for sex.
"It's a really horrendous affair," said Dallas police Lt. Chess Williams.
Police estimate there are hundreds of teenage prostitutes on the streets of Dallas because there is a big demand. Recently, they found a 12-year-old girl dancing naked at a nightclub.
"I can't believe that a 13-, 14-, 15-year-old child knowlingly injects herself into a world of prostitution," Lt. Williams said.
But it did happen, and the 13-year-old in this case may have talked another school friend into prostitution.
Police won't say what school the girl attended, but they're not surprised. "One of the remarkable things we learned through all of this is there's a tremendous amount of money in all this, so a huge demand for young girls in prostitution world," Lt. Williams said.
Police said the young girls aren't acting alone. They say some of the same people who are pimping out the adult prostitutes are the same ones exploiting young girls.
The 13-year-old was arrested on Saturday, March 22, and charged with compelling prostitution. She and others like her may be runaways whose childhoods were stolen for profit.
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DALLAS — Two 13-year-old girls are caught in a web of prostitution. The outrage starts with the girls' families, but it doesn't stop there.
Police say one of the 13-year-olds was stripping and selling her body for money at a Dallas club after being invited there by a friend at her school who is also 13.
The grandmother of one of the girls told News 8 she can't believe what she's hearing. She said her granddaughter is an outgoing, good student and a member of her middle school dance team.
"She's not hard up for money," the grandmother said. "She gets whatever she wants."
The grandmother said the girl who led her granddaughter to the club was misleading. "I think she had her thinking she was going to a teenage club or something."
But police say the woman's granddaughter was being prostituted by that "friend."
"Does your granddaughter look like a teenager?" we asked the grandmother. "She looks like a little girl," was her reply.
The family of teenaged pimp said they had no idea. "I don't believe she was prostituting," said her brother. "I know my sister, and she is not that way."
Police and family members say Club Metropolis near Love Field should be held accountable, even though its owners haven't been charged with any crime.
"That place needs to be closed down, investigated, the owners run out of town, or something," said the girl's grandmother.
Dallas city council member Elba Garcia agrees. She and city staff are looking at the club's records. "We do have the tools, Rebecca, and this is not acceptable," Garcia said.
Police investigators are also checking out another club, Diamond's Cabaret, where they say a 12-year-old was found dancing naked a few months ago. Several people were arrested there.
The grandmother of the teenage prostitute hopes more arrests will follow. "I know good and well they knew they had little girls up in that club," she said.