'At 13, my best friend pimped me out to be raped by strangers for three years and I was moved from house to house like a toy'
SAMANTHA Owens was just 13 when she was taken to a gathering of five men in a ground floor flat by her best friend and left there to be raped by one of the older men.
When he left, her mum slid into a life of promiscuity and Samantha and her siblings were taken into nearby foster care homes. “She was pretty and skinny and friendly and we actually looked quite similar too which was bizarre – she had dark hair, brown eyes with a cool lip and eyebrow piercing and would wear her hair scraped back into a side ponytail.Samantha says that she was impressed by Amanda, pictured, when she first met her
"In the end, I felt she was my best friend and the only one who seemed to really care about me so I went along with it.” I was constantly truanting from school at this point.For three years, Samantha was taken to lots of different house parties and gatherings by Amanda. "She also introduced me to drugs and alcohol and a lot of the time, when I had sex, I was completely out of it, as it felt like the only way I could cope."Amanda didn’t physically force me to have sex but emotionally, she made me feel like she was the only one who cared and I had to do these things to keep her friendship.
"It made me think that everything about our friendship had been a lie. I changed my number and broke off our friendship. "But I had no choice. He was taken to a really nice family who were brilliant with him and at 10 months old he went to live with Blaine as he insisted on a DNA test and it turned out he was the dad.”The devastation of losing her child sent her into a deeper downward spiral and she returned to drugs and alcohol to blot out the pain, ending up in prison for robbing a couple of people in the street in 2013.
In 2014, Amanda was imprisoned for 12 years having been found guilty of 14 counts of arranging or facilitating child prostitution and two counts of causing or inciting child prostitution.
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