Husband of the Year
Clinton Danner, now 32, met his wife at the Minnesota church where he worked, and she attended the youth group. She was 17.
Four years ago, they married -- and she got pregnant. While she was still pregnant, say investigators at the Cook County, Ill., sheriff's department, he forced her to work as a prostitute, setting her up on "dates" in Chicago and other cities. Her motivation: he said he would hurt their child if they didn't, and he wouldn't let her be alone with her daughter, now 3, detectives say.
The couple lived in a minivan with their daughter as they made the circuit to New York, Washington, D.C. Florida and Georgia, as he pimped her out via ads on Craigslist and other sites, prosecutors said.
He recently left her in a hotel in Chicago to turn tricks, and told her he was coming up to find out why she wasn't making him enough money. She called her parents -- and police, telling them what was happening. Danner was arrested for felony pandering last weekend. He has previous felony convictions, including for drug offenses and fraud.
Danner is being held on $150,000 bail, and the judge has barred him from contacting his wife.
Actually, the docents at the Mug Shot Museum would rather see an order banning him from contacting his daughter.
Source: Chicago Breaking News
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Posted by Joan, Henderson, NV on March 21, 2010:
We don't know what circumstances she was under, as in did she have access to a phone or was he watching her 24/7? And some women are psychologically beaten down they can't call for help even given the opportunity (but this woman finally did --Good for her!)
One of my cousins was psychologically abused by her husband for 15 years. When our family found out, my mother asked her niece, "Why didn't you tell me?" (They were close.) My cousin replied, "Would you have believed me?" Yes, my mother said. How many abused women (and children) have spoken out, told someone, and not been believed? How many have not spoken out because they thought they would not be believed? Something to keep in mind with these situations.
Posted by Robert in Missouri on March 22, 2010:
I'd like to see a court order--with serious teeth in it--forcing him to keep away from both of them.
Posted by Mike from Dallas on March 23, 2010:
I can't find the source of the quote, but it goes:
"It's good that women are so forgiving; otherwise, the human race would surely become extinct."