Kids, Sex and Crack Cocaine
Middletown mom, 2 former
neighbors indicted amid charges of crruption and rape
BY SHEILA MCLAUGHLIN | ENQUIRER STAFF WRITER MIDDLETOWN - Three youngsters, including a boy and
girl as young as 12, are being treated for crack cocaine addiction, and one
had sex in exchange for the highly addictive drug, authorities said. That's the fallout, police and prosecutors say, from
a two-month investigation that ended in indictments this week of the mother
of two of the youngsters and two former neighbors at the Williamsburg Place
Apartments on Jackson Lane. "This is deeply, deeply disturbing," Butler County
Prosecutor Robin Piper said Friday. "It shows people will do just about
anything to feed the addiction." A county grand jury charged Lola McKinney, 39,
Elizabeth Ann Tabar, 26, and Tabar's mother, Darlene Griffin, 52, each with
three felony counts of corrupting another with drugs and three felony counts
of permitting drug abuse. Tabar also faces a felony charge of complicity to
rape for allegedly encouraging the 12-year-old, who lived in the complex but
is not related to any of the women, to have sex with a man in exchange for
crack. Police still are investigating the man. Tabar has been jailed on a $150,000 bond since her
arrest in March. Griffin, who recently was evicted, and McKinney, who still
lives there, remain free and are scheduled to appear in Butler County Common
Pleas Court for an arraignment hearing May 9. McKinney and Griffin were not charged earlier, but
were indicted after the grand jury heard evidence this week.