Shamed Into Silence
Men charged in the case
The life of a St. Paul 12-year-old turned into a nightmare after she met two men called JB and Taz. After giving the girls crystal methamphetamine, the men made her pay for the drugs by prostituting her, police say. A Hmong teenager who lived in the house where the first rape took place was charged with soliciting a minor to commit prostitution. Age 15 at the time of the attacks, he entered a plea agreement, but because he was a juvenile, his case is not public.
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A voice of outrage from within
Ilean Her's concern about young Hmong girls getting raped in St. Paul started in church.
One girl's ordeal of terror
She was just 12 years old that summer, a 96-pound sixth-grader at a St. Paul magnet school. Her Frogtown apartment sweltered in the rising heat, so she and two friends walked to a corner store for ice cream.