Deputies say they set up a meeting by using backpage. Backpage is a website where items can posted to be sold including escorts. The undercover deputy placed a phone call responding to an ad on the website and spoke with a female. The deputy informed the female that he was at Motel 6 and was looking for some company.
The deputy informed the arrest team that the female was on her way to the room. The room was connected by a door to another room where the arrest team waited.
When the female arrived, she knocked on the room door and the deputy let her in. While the deputy spoke to the female, the arrest team monitored their conversation. When the deputy asked what he could receive for his donation, the female replied anything he wanted.
When the deputy asked if he needed to wear a condom to perform a certain sexual act on the female, she said he would have to because she had just got her tongue pierced. Upon entering the room, deputies saw the female, identified as year-old Rosetta Thurman, of Midland, standing by the bed with her pants off. Thurman began crying and said, "No, please no. Thurman was asked by deputies if she had a pimp that was waiting for her outside in the parking lot.
Thurman said she didn't have a pimp. Thurman received several phone calls while deputies were questioning her. When deputies asked Thurman who was calling her, she said it was her boyfriend. Deputies asked if her boyfriend was her pimp, but she continued to deny it. Thurman told deputies that her boyfriend "was ok with" her being a prostitute. Deputies offered Thurman help to get out of this lifestyle and asked her where she was staying.
