(Rhea County, Tennessee) A 22-year-old Dayton, TN, woman, Mersadie Minton Pankey, has been arrested for operating a prostitution business involving two 16-year-old girls. According to Sex Crime Detective Rocky Potter, Pankey would take the girls to various locations in Rhea County to perform sex acts for money and then keep most of the money.
Pankey faces three counts of promoting prostitution and six counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor. She was booked into custody at the Rhea County Jail. The girls were not charged."According to our information, Mersadie would go to these locations and work up the deal while the two girls remained in the car," Potter said. "Then one girl would go in and collect the money and come back out before the second girl went in to perform the sex acts."
Pankey allegedly drove the girls to three locations, one in Dayton, one in Graysville and one on Dayton Mountain, in September. Each time the girl would have sex with up to seven men, Potter said.
Pankey reportedly met the two girls while living in the Dayton Housing Authority's Taylor Hills development.
The detective questioned Pankey and the two girls, and all three gave statements consistent with the evidence, Potter said. "The girl who performed the sex acts said she did it because she felt threatened by Pankey. She said Pankey needed the money to make her car payment," Potter said.
Each time, up to seven men? Business was booming. Heh.
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