The Nation - News from Aug. 30, 1989

A woman who settled a crack debt by allowing her 13-year-old daughter to be raped was sentenced in Detroit to life in prison. Susan Barbier, 29, was convicted of first-degree criminal sexual conduct, the charge for rape in Michigan. Prosecutors said Barbier woke her daughter in the middle of a night in May, 1988, and took her to the apartment of Anthony Sawyer, 28, where the girl was raped. After the attack, Barbier and Sawyer allegedly went out together and took drugs. Sawyer was convicted of the same charge and was sentenced Thursday by another judge to 40 to 60 years in prison.