It was a little before 8 at night when the breaker went out at Emily Milburn's home in Galveston. She was busy preparing her children for school the next day, so she asked her 12-year-old daughter, Dymond, to pop outside and turn the switch back on. As Dymond headed toward the breaker, a blue van drove up and three men jumped out rushing toward her. One of them grabbed her saying, "You're a prostitute. You're coming with me."Dymond grabbed onto a tree and started screaming, "Daddy, Daddy, D
In December, Hair Balls brought you the story of Dymond Milburn, a 12-year-old girl whose family is suing several Galveston police officers after the cops allegedly beat and injured her while trying to arrest her for suspected prostitution. The lawsuit claims that the police hopped out of an unmarked car at night, did not identify themselves and tried to arrest Milburn in her yard when the girl began screaming for her parents and fighting back. Several weeks later, police arrested Milburn at
Final arguments are expected to begin today in the criminal trail of Dymond Milburn, the 12-year-old Galveston resident who is accused of assaulting cops who tried to arrest her outside her home after mistaking her for a hooker.We first wrote about her here, in a story that rocketed around the web. Galveston police got a call that three white prostitutes were working Milburn's neighborhood; the girl was outside her home dealing with a tripped breaker. Saying she was wearing provocative clo
