From Hampton Police

Joe Slade

Hampton Police say a 36-year-old Newport News woman paid for drugs by prostituting her young daughter.

They say the woman brought the girl to a hotel in the 2100 block of W. Mercury Boulevard late Friday or early Saturday. Once there, they say she met Joe Slade, 57, of Hampton, and allowed him to rape her daughter in exchange for drugs.

Willie Carson and everyone in one Newport News community is outraged after one of their neighbors allegedly sold her 10-year-old daughter for crack.

"Everybody is surprised everybody because they never thought a person like her would do something like that to her child or anybody else’s kid,” said Carson.

The little girl lives with her grandmother and was only spending the night with her mother when police say she was raped and forced to perform sexual acts on Slade.

Investigators say it was all an arrangement made by the mother to score drugs. After the rape, the mother did not get the little girl medical attention. Instead, she dropped her back off at a relative’s house.

It's those family members who finally got the ten year old to the hospital.

Slade is charged with rape, forcible sodomy, conspiracy to commit forcible sodomy and aggravated sexual battery.

The mother faces many charges, including one count of pandering.

Police are not releasing the woman's name to protect her daughter.