SoCal Man Shawn Barth Charged with Rape & Holding a 13 Year Old Girl as a Sex Slave

Shawn Barth held 13 year old girl as sex slave … where was her mother?

46 year old Shawn Barth has been arrested and charged with rape and holding a 13 year old girl as a sex slave in Ventura County Superior Court. According to reports, the 13 year old was assaulted daily and was too afraid to report the abuse as Barth had threatened her. Barth was charged with child rape, oral copulation on a child and continuous sexual abuse. One of the bizarre aspects as this case is the fact that the unidentified female minor was the daughter if a woman that Barth had previously dated and there was a restraining order; however, the child was never reported as missing.

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“She was a psychological prisoner,” Buschow said.

Barth was charged in Ventura County Superior Court with a felony count each of child rape, continuous sexual abuse and oral copulation on a child.

The girl was taken into protective custody last week and her name has not been released.

She was the daughter of a woman Barth had dated in San Bernardino County, Buschow said. The mother is a witness in the case and is cooperating with police.

Barth claimed that he was the girls legal guardian, though he does not have legal custody of her. The girl began attending middle school in Moorpark, CA at the beginning of this semester and school officials were tipped off as to something was potentially wrong when they asked her last school in Yucaipa in San Bernardino County for school records

Authorities did not say exactly how the girl ended up living with Barth.

She was not kidnapped or reported missing, Buschow said.

Buschow said Barth previously had a relationship with the girl’s mother, but he did not elaborate.

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