A screening of a new film called “The Playground,” a documentary Executive Produced by actor George Clooney, will happen Tuesday, Oct. 5th at the Criminal Justice Training Center in Biurien.

This film is about the insidious life of Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking (DMST), and all proceeds will go towards opening the first 24-hour Drop in Center in America for girls ages 11-24 involved in DMST.

No word yet on whether Mr. Clooney himself will be present or not, but we wouldn’t count on it.

Here are the details:

WHAT: Screening of “The Playground” Documentary.

WHEN: Tuesday Oct. 5th at 6pm.

WHERE: The Criminal Justice Training Center, located at 19010 1st Avenue South in Burien.

TICKETS: Tickets are $12 and can be purchased online at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/122618.

Tickets are also available at the door

VIDEO: Here’s the trailer:

Click here to view the embedded video.

INFO: From the film’s website:

The Genesis Project along with The Innocence Mission is proud to show the full length documentary of The Playground.

This documentary is produced by George Clooney, Grant Heslov and Stephen Soderbergh.

Come get a first hand look at minor sex trafficking in America.

All proceeds and donations from this event will go to the The Genesis Project located in SeaTac WA and will be used to help open the first 24-Hour Drop In Center in the Country for Domestic Minor Sex Trafficked girls.

The film will begin promptly at 6:30pm with a discussion panel following a 15-minute intermission.

Because of the nature of the film no children please.

All proceeds from this event will go directly to The Genesis Project and to their 24 Hour Drop In Center fund.

To learn more about this production, click here: www.playgroundpremiereatl.com

The Seattle P-I reported Tuesday (Feb. 1st) that three men and a woman are facing charges that they kidnapped, beat and sexually assaulted a woman in an area north of Sea-Tac Airport.

The story claims that Candice Sanders, 23, Christapher White, 21, Luis Perez, 22, and Troy O’Dell, 25, held the unidentified female victim for two days at a home near the airport, where Sanders allegedly beat her.

Other times she was allegedly gang-raped by two of the male suspects in front of her their children.

The woman, who was hospitalized at Harborview Medical Center after the attack, told King County deputies that she had been assaulted, court documents show. Perez, O’Dell and White were apparently arrested later that day, as was Sanders.

A search done after the attack apparently turned up evidence of weapons, body armor and large amounts of prescription painkillers.

Read the full story here.

According to The Seattle Times, Hollie Beston, 31, of Burien, was arrested along with her ex-husband, Brian Beston, 36, of Kent, for filming themselves raping their 4-year old daughter and sending photos of the abuse to a man in Southern California.

The two were arrested by Seattle Police last week after the FBI learned of the crime from the recipient of the photos, a man facing child-molestation charges in Southern California, said charging documents filed Wednesday in King County Superior Court.

The Times goes to on report that the Bestons have each been charged with:

• First-degree child rape
• First-degree child molestation
• Sexual exploitation of a minor
• Depictions of a minor engaged in sexually explicit conduct

Both are currently being held at the King County Jail on $500,000 bail each.

Some other amazingly unpleasant facts from this story:

• Police believe the Bestons abused the girl for several months.
• Hollie Beston is also accused of operating the camera and sending the images via a cellphone and the Internet.
• Police apparently searched the Bestons’ homes in Kent and Burien last week and confiscated computers, cameras, flash drives, cellphones and other electronics, court papers said.

The child was taken into custody by state Child Protective Services.

We did our own Google search for “Hollie Beston” and found a profile for her (direct link here), which includes some incredibly ironic statements like:

• “I am a fun loving and caring person.”
• “I have a problem with caring for people too much, which leads to people trying to use me.”
• “It is a lot of fun meeting new people but I am careful because I have a young one to take care of.”

Here’s exact wording from her Google Profile:

Hollie Beston

Medical Assisting ; Student at Kaplan University
Burien, Washington

Interests:
Traveling, astrology, baking some, reading, swimming, going for walks…

I am a fun loving and caring person. I love to goof off and raising my child. I graduate in August but will be done with classes in the middle of march then plan on continuing my education by going for my RN. I have a problem with caring for people too much, which leads to people trying to use me. I enjoy doing a variety of things and have hopes and dreams that will someday come true. It is a lot of fun meeting new people but I am careful because I have a young one to take care of.

Places I’ve lived
Golden Valley, AZ ; Lenoir, NC; Kent and Burien, WA

Read the full Times story here.

As a recognized news organization, we here at The B-Town Blog get emails and press releases from all over the place, including a daily one called “What happened at the council?” (link here) from the King County Council.

Here’s an actual sentence that was included in Tuesday’s (Sept. 8th) update:

“Approved an ordinance implementing the District Court Redistricting Committee’s amendment to the districting plan implementing provisions to increase the number of judges in the District Court. (Ordinance 2009-0453)”

We’ve never been one to particularly enjoy politicspeak, and this here sentence will now go down as Exhibit A in our prosecution of the abuse of technical, wonky jargon usage.

Your witness.