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And she had talked about her horror at going back to prison. She said that she would be raped and beaten and even tortured. She said she would not go back to prison.
Can we stop trying to turn this into a conspiracy to protect the men involved and focus on the sheer tragedy of this? A woman died because she coudln't face decades in prison for the terrible "crime" of helping other women voluntarily sell their bodies to men. She was not a pimp who beat her drug-addicted slaves and took their money. She was more like an intermediary who helped them find clients and took care of the paperwork. There is no reason that she should have been facing the kind of penalties she was facing.