Post by OnCrime on Nov 19, 2006 0:52:14 GMT -5
Meet Crystal Chumley. She is 25 years old and she has been arrested in Charlotte more than 20 times since April 2004. Her charges include prostitution, drug offenses, larceny, public intoxication and more...
Tara Servatius wrote an article in Creative Loafing called "Tracy's World." She focuses on Tracy Howard, the man charged with running a prostitution ring in Charlotte. Crystal Chumley was one of his prostitutes who never recovered.
From the article: charlotte.creativeloafing.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=34587
" .... Like the documentary's glamor whores, Crystal Chumley, 23, was pretty, but that's where the similarities ended. Chumley says her biological mother killed Crystal's baby brother by shooting him full of dope when Crystal was just a toddler.
Crystal was later adopted by an Alabama couple and her adoptive grandfather began raping her when she was 6. He'd give her alcohol to keep her numb while they had sex, and she figures she's been an alcoholic since before she was 10.
The grandfather's abuse stopped when she was 13, but shortly afterwards her adoptive father took an interest in her and began raping her. Crystal arrived in Charlotte at 17 as a runaway, got addicted to crack and was plucked from the streets by Tracy Howard, who figured it would be "easy to get her."
Chumley, who worked as a prostitute for all three Howard brothers and for the escort service, explained to the jury how David Howard, whom she said she still loved, had held a fire poker in flames until it heated up red hot and then scalded her leg with it. It was because she'd been about to light her crack pipe over the flames and he wanted her to know how hot the fire was so she wouldn't hurt herself. It was because he loved her and didn't want her to smoke crack anymore, she explained, smiling at the memory of a time when David would still say he loved her... "
Crystal's Arrest Photos:
2/16/2004
4/4/2004
4/23/2004
8/4/2004
11/11/2004
12/31/2004
1/22/2005
3/22/2005
3/29/2005
4/11/2005
4/20/2005
5/11/2005
12/07/2005
1/26/2006
04/09/2006
4/12/2006
5/10/2006
6/12/2006
7/21/2006
8/24/2006
9/26/2006
Tara Servatius wrote an article in Creative Loafing called "Tracy's World." She focuses on Tracy Howard, the man charged with running a prostitution ring in Charlotte. Crystal Chumley was one of his prostitutes who never recovered.
From the article: charlotte.creativeloafing.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=34587
" .... Like the documentary's glamor whores, Crystal Chumley, 23, was pretty, but that's where the similarities ended. Chumley says her biological mother killed Crystal's baby brother by shooting him full of dope when Crystal was just a toddler.
Crystal was later adopted by an Alabama couple and her adoptive grandfather began raping her when she was 6. He'd give her alcohol to keep her numb while they had sex, and she figures she's been an alcoholic since before she was 10.
The grandfather's abuse stopped when she was 13, but shortly afterwards her adoptive father took an interest in her and began raping her. Crystal arrived in Charlotte at 17 as a runaway, got addicted to crack and was plucked from the streets by Tracy Howard, who figured it would be "easy to get her."
Chumley, who worked as a prostitute for all three Howard brothers and for the escort service, explained to the jury how David Howard, whom she said she still loved, had held a fire poker in flames until it heated up red hot and then scalded her leg with it. It was because she'd been about to light her crack pipe over the flames and he wanted her to know how hot the fire was so she wouldn't hurt herself. It was because he loved her and didn't want her to smoke crack anymore, she explained, smiling at the memory of a time when David would still say he loved her... "
Crystal's Arrest Photos:
2/16/2004
4/4/2004
4/23/2004
8/4/2004
11/11/2004
12/31/2004
1/22/2005
3/22/2005
3/29/2005
4/11/2005
4/20/2005
5/11/2005
12/07/2005
1/26/2006
04/09/2006
4/12/2006
5/10/2006
6/12/2006
7/21/2006
8/24/2006
9/26/2006
Very sad.
