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CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas, June 21 (UPI) -- The operators of a strip club in Corpus Christi, Texas, did not know one of their strippers was a 14-year-old girl, an attorney for the club alleges.
Attorney Alan Yaffe alleges in a lawsuit against the girl and her parents the club unknowingly broke state law by allowing the teenage girl to expose her breasts on stage at Club Cheetah, the San Antonio Express-News reported Saturday.
The lawsuit, which alleges the teen identified herself as a 22-year-old, is seeking unspecified damages.
The young girl is also at the center of criminal charges filed against 48-year-old Leslie Campbell, who is also named as a co-defendant in Club Cheetah's lawsuit, which was filed last week.
Campbell stands accused of kidnapping the teen, repeatedly sexually assaulting her and then forcing her to work at the Cheetah Club through the use of a false identification card.
The Express-News said Campbell was arrested and charged with aggravated sexual assault and aggravated kidnapping after the teen escaped and was reunited with her family.
Meanwhile, club manager Jeffery Shawn Martinez has been charged with employment harmful to a minor and sexual performance of a child for employing the girl, whose identity was not reported.
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