Woman sentenced for selling daughter for sex

This article is kind of short, but believe me you will not want to hear more. All that I could think while reading this was "holy s***".
This article "Woman sentenced for selling daughter for sex" was posted in the Joplin Globe on May 6, 2010. It states that (the mothers name is being left out for the protection of the daughter) a former resident of Blue Springs has been sentenced to 15 years in the federal state prison for selling her daughter for sadomasochistic sex. The 46 year old woman has been ordered to pay 200,000 in restitution to pay for her daughter’s counseling. The woman and Todd Barkau (co-defendant), plead guilty last November to charges of commercial sex trafficking of a minor. Barkau has been charged but is still awaiting sentencing. Prosecutors say Barkau began training the girl in 2000, when she was 12. The training began by the girl being forced to have sadomasochistic sex with him and others. He later set up a website that billed the girl as “Mistress Alisha.” She was sold to other men for to perform sex acts for cash or other items such as DVD players.
I am appalled! I have girls, and I can not even imagine the thought that they might someday be sexually active, but this, this makes me want to puck. I, how, I do not understand how someone who has carried a child in their womb and raised them could do something so absolutely cruel and heartless for a frickin DVD player and money. This really makes me sick.
My heart goes out to this girl. I can not come close to imagining what she has gone through at the hands of her own mother. I was a sexually abused growing up, but never at the hands of my own mother. God bless this girl and her willingness to survive. The road ahead of her will be long, but her strength for life and survival will overcome.