In re Mariah H.
On August 16, 2009, at approximately 4:30 in the morning, two police officers on an undercover investigation noticed Mariah H. (then 17 years old) and two other females standing on a sidewalk near Sepulveda Boulevard and Archwood Street, an area known to have a high rate of prostitution. Mariah was wearing a dress that was very short, and very tight, and appeared to be tracking cars. When one of the officers drove to the curb near where Mariah was standing, and lowered his window, she approached his car, and asked, Are you a cop? When he said, no, she turned around, bent over, and pulled up her skirt to show her bare buttocks, and said, Touch me. The officer declined, and drove away. A few minutes later, the second officer drove to the side of the street where Mariah was standing. When she approached his car, he asked if she was working. At that point, Mariah looked around, then pulled down the top portion of her dress to show her right breast, and asked him to touch her. When the officer asked Mariah if she was a police officer, she answered no, and said that, if she were a cop, she wouldnt be able to show [him] anything. Shortly thereafter, two other officers took Mariah into custody without incident.
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