Mom and Daughter Arrested for Prostitution

This is an ad (above) that appeared on Craigslist showing mother Traci Young (38) and her daughter Tammi Smith (22). Young and Smith, plus Young’s boyfriend, David Riley, were arrested yesterday after an undercover cop posed as a john and allegedly paid them for their sexual services.

The Craigslist ad was listed under erotic services, and touted Young and Smith as a "mother-n-daughter tag team," according to one version of the ad. It showed a picture of the two, cozy on a sectional couch that sits on the home’s front porch. The threesome was specifically advertised "w4m" or women for men.

Young and Smith negotiated a $200 rate for both of them at the same time and "for multiple sex acts," said Lt. Charles Green, with the Citywide Vice Enforcement Unit.

The mother and daughter hookers had men in Philadelphia going in and out of their home sometimes every 30 minutes neighbors said.

Smith’s has two daughters, 7 and 5, and a son, 3, who were all taken into protective custody. Neighbors said:

"It was heartbreaking to see them kids. The parents didn’t take care of them. The boy was once outside in the rain, wearing only a diaper. All the neighbors would keep an eye on them to make sure they didn’t run out into the street. The mother and daughter would walk around with ’G-strings’ and they were in the backyard with no tops."

The mother told reporters before getting into the police van:

"It’s a messed up world out there. We have to do this just to get by."

Young and Smith were known around the block to be working as strippers at Dangerous Curves, on Tacony Street near Comly.

The city Department of Licenses and Inspections yesterday deemed the house a nuisance, because of prostitution and forbade its residents to return.

Looks like Young and Smith will have to work real jobs like everyone else now, if they can find one.