The teenage prostitute at the heart of the Oakland (America) police sex scandal has won almost $1m from the city.
Jasmin Abuslin, now 19, is the daughter of a police dispatcher who claims she slept with two dozen officers over several years dating back to when she was 16.
She used the prostitute name Celeste Guap and claims that some of the officers paid her after their encounters.
The scandal was unearthed last year when she began sharing her allegations. It has been tied to the suicide of one police officer and prompted the firing of several from different law enforcement agencies across the city.
On Wednesday, Abuslin was awarded $989,000 by a court in the Californian city — a fraction of the $66m she had been asking for.
Abuslin identified herself last year after the 2015 suicide of one of the officers involved.
She claimed to have slept with dozens of the men across the city and said some even encouraged her to keep working on the streets.
Abuslin said one officer tried to act as her pimp, renting her out a hotel room and telling her what to wear to find clients.
She said she had sex with another man in his patrol car and that others warned her of hot spots where authorities were carrying out undercover missions to catch prostitutes.
Seven current and former officers have been charged criminally for their involvement with her. So far, one has pleaded guilty.
Prosecutors previously claimed some of the men gave her Cheetos in exchange for sex. Abuslin said at least three gave her cash.
They also offered to send her to rehab to treat her drug addiction, she said.
Abuslin filed her lawsuit against the city in the same month. Her lawyer said at the time that the treatment she received was akin to ‘modern day slavery’.
On Wednesday, the same lawyer welcomed the settlement.
‘The settlement occurred with no admission of liability, but obviously if you pay $1 million, you figure you got some responsibility,’ John Burris said outside court.
Abuslin no longer works as a prostitute. Her mother has never spoken publicly of the case.
Oakland Police Department Officer Brendan O’Brien killed himself in 2015 after she threatened to expose the fact they had had sex when she was 17.
Livermore officer Dan Black admitted having sex with her once she was of age in his motor home in exchange for alcohol and dinners.
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