Published: December 20, 2006 12:23 am            

DVD will show you how to be a pimp

PHOENIX (AP) — A convicted pimp has been asked to make a video — for educational purposes.

Antoin Thurman helped with the making of an anti-prostitution video by describing how he recruited girls at malls and clubs and lured them into selling their bodies.

“I’ve realized I wouldn’t want to see my daughter, my mother or sister in this predicament I had these girls in,” said Thurman, serving a three-year sentence. “Not only did I mess up my life, but I messed up their lives.”

The 20-minute video, the brainchild of Judge Lex Anderson of Lake Pleasant Justice Court, will be completed by the end of January. Anderson said about 1,500 DVDs are to be distributed, including to schools.

Besides the interview with Thurman, the video will include interviews with a coroner, a psychologist, a detective and parents of a victim, said Brad Michaelson, president of Brand Canyon Co., the company producing and creating the video for the Maricopa County Superior Court.

“We want 14-, 15- and 16-year-olds to watch it,” Michaelson said. “We took a dramatic approach so they will listen to it.”

        

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