January 1980

Woman forced young girl into child prostitution ring

A woman at the centre of a child prostitution ring has avoided a prison sentence after the judge handed her a two year sentence which was suspended for two years.

Zoe Parker, aged 48 of Dodkin, Bletchley admitted encouraging a 10 year old girl into prostitution.

Judge Justice Griffiths told her: “What you did was wicked and you richly deserved to be sent to prison. You will carry the guilt for what you did, I doubt not. But because of your disable daughter and your other children, I will give you a suspended sentence”

Five men – including her husband Geoffrey Parker – were in the dock at Northampton Crown Court when they recieved a total of 13 years imprisonment for various sexual offences against the girl, when she was aged between 9 and 14 years old.

Two other men involved are Savvas Gregoriou & Douglas Stanley Gill – boith of Northampton

The court heard during the five day trial, how the girl had been forced into prostitution at the age of 10., a year after being sexually abused by a number of men.

She was later forced to pose for indecent photographs and was again forced to take part in sexual acts with a female adult while men photographed them.

The court was told that one of the men involved, committed suicide by putting his head on a railway track which resulted in a train running over him. He died three days after police had found indecent images of children in his Northampton home.

The other offenders and the victim was identified by police from those pictures.