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“My stepdad turned me out”

“Do you mean that your stepfather prostituted you? That he was your pimp?”

“I guess you could call hi sex with ht his friends over and they had sex with me, too”

“Did you ever report your stepfather for rape or child abuse, anything like that?”

“No, ma’am He said it was how I paid my rent”

“Is your stepfather here today?”

“No He died three years ago”

“And your mother? Where is she?”

“She’s doing ti”

“I see,” Davis said “So, Junie, you’re a bright enough girl Did you really have to be a prostitute? Couldn’t you have gotten a job in a restaurant or a department store? Maybe worked in an office?”

Junie cleared her throat, said quietly, “Doing sex is the only thing I’ve ever known, and I don’t really mind It’s like, for a little time every day, I feel close to someone”

“Having sex with strangers makes you feel close?”

Junie sood for a while”

Davis paused to let the tragedy of the vulnerable young woman’s story wash over the jury Then she said, “Junie, please tell the jury: Did you ever have sex with Michael Campion?”

“No, I did not Absolutely never!”