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06 august 2010



Internet dominatrix case ends with 25-year prison sentence


Source: www.kansascity.com  - Kansas City Star - USA


KANSAS CITY USA- A former Blue Springs man who prostituted a 12-year-old girl into years of degrading sexual servitude was sentenced today to 25 years in federal prison.


Todd Barkau was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Kansas City, where his co-defendant - the girl’s mother - was sentenced in May to 15 years for her role in allowing Barkau to train and market her daughter as a dominatrix.

District Judge Nanette Laughrey also ordered Barkau to pay $200,000 in restitution for future counseling costs incurred by the victim, now in her 20s and married.

The victim’s mother, who is not being named to protect her daughter’s identity, was ordered at her sentencing to pay the same amount.

Barkau, 38, and the girl’s mother, 46, pleaded guilty last September to commercial sexual trafficking of a minor. Barkau’s sentencing was delayed while he underwent a psychological examination to determine his mental competency.

His victimization of the girl began when in 2000 when she was 12, according to his plea agreement.

He engaged in acts of sadomasochistic sex with the girl, used pornography as a teaching aid and watched while she engaged in sex acts with other men, according to the plea agreement.

When the girl was 14, Barkau set up a website, billing the girl as Mistress Alisha, and charging customers for online and in-person sexual encounters with her. The abuse ended in 2005 when the girl ran away from home.

A psychologist who Assistant U.S. Attorney Cynthia Cordes obtained to calculate the costs of mental health counseling said the victim is likely to “carry the emotional and psychological burdens of her abuse well into the future.”

“Flashbacks, nightmares, abandonment issues, anger, guilt, resentment, depression, self-doubt and feelings of hopelessness and helplessness are all problems to be anticipated for this young woman,” Gerald Gentry opined in a written report.

Restitution payments would be deducted from the defendants’ earnings from prison jobs as well as from post-prison employment.