The Bottom Bitch

When G-Unit sang about their "bottom bitch", they weren't talking about a mean ex-girlfriend with a fantastic badonkadonk.  They were talking about a pimp's "bottom bitch" or "bottom", his favorite prostitute, and often the girl he relies on to help him manage the other women he controls. A bottom will often start out as the pimp's first prostitute, and in some cases, will eventually become a pimp-or a human trafficker- herself.

It happened this week in Phoenix.  A 16-year-old and a 17-year-old girl were arrested on child prostitution charges.  Apparently, these two girls had recruited five more teens between 14 and 17 into prostitution.  They recruited the teens from area high schools, rented an apartment which they ran as a brothel, and charged hundreds of dollars a trick.  The crime they committed could have been charged as federal human trafficking or as child prostitution under local law.  No word yet as to whether or not trafficking charges will be added.

While the news coverage hasn't made any mention so far of the accused teen girls being under the tutalige of another pimp, one has to ask- how do two teens know how to recruit young girls into prostitution and set up a brothel?  I would not be surprised at all to find out that at least one of these girls was a bottom for another pimp.  It is not uncommon for pimps to use their bottom to recruit more girls, especially if the girl is a minor and therefore would only go to juvenile detention for recruiting.

Trafficking children is heinous, but using children to traffic more children, now that's hitting bottom.