Florida State Attorney Mark Ober is in a tight race against Andrew Warren in the Hillsborough State Attorney elections. If you don’t know who Republican Mark Ober is, you can ask his former employee and corrupt state official Pam Bondi. Ober is getting slammed by Warren for his apparent ineptitude in pursuing a sexual assault case between a 15-year-old Florida teenager and a 27-year-old Maryland musician she met online.
Alex Pelzer, 26, allegedly forced a Tampa teenager to become his sex slave and met her in D.C. and Maryland hotel rooms for sadistic encounters.
These charges came to light back in February, at which time Ober’s office declined to charge the 27-year-old Pelzer. Local news investigated the sexual assault allegations and the results of their investigation forced Ober’s office to “reexamine” the case.
Her mother says he treated her like his slave and the teen got frightened about what the man would do when her mother discovered the relationship and took her phone.
“My master will punish me or be mad if I don’t respond,” the teen told her mother. “And then in the same second she looked up at me and said, 'Mommy, help.' I and I just hugged her.”
But after reviewing the evidence, local authorities are not filing charges and the suspect has not been questioned.
A few months later, the accused musician Alexander Pelzer is set to be prosecuted.
According to investigators, Pelzer was able to manipulate a local teenager to be his sex slave. When we first reported the story, the Hillsborough Sheriff's Office on the advice of the Hillsborough State Attorney's Office closed the case and said it could not pursue charges against the out of state man.
However, the State Attorney's Office took another look.
What changed? The “investigation” that the local news pursued consisted of looking online at this musician’s YouTube and social media activities and—hold your breath—asking the victim a series of questions about her allegations, and verifying whether or not those allegations had any substance to them. The allegations are pretty heinous. After striking up a relationship online with the teen, a girl who admired his songs online, Pelzer allegedly manipulated a sexual relationship with the girl that included clearly sadistic and inappropriate control elements that can not be overlooked in a case of this nature.
He allegedly demanded she live by a set of rules: she couldn’t dress, eat, cut her hair or even use a bathroom without his permission. She had to contact him at least once an hour. And at all times, she had to call him Master or Sir.
The violent relationship abruptly ended when her parents discovered it on her 18 birthday last fall.
“Then, like in the same second, she looked up at me and she said, Mommy, please help me.”
So what happened? Ober, upon being attacked for his mishandling of the case by Warren the other day, had this to say:
Ober responded by saying that Warren did not know the facts of the case.
"She was with him voluntarily," Ober said. "She flew to see him."
Now, in Ober’s defense, this is exactly what he said:
I have a picture of what I call a “sex slave.” And by no means...do not read between the lines, this young girl...this man has committed a crime so don’t read between the lines here. She was with him voluntarily. She flew to see him.
See, Ober has his own picture of what a “sex slave” is. It’s a picture of a woman, with mud in her hair, unwashed and bloody, living in a dungeon, waiting for Jodie Foster to save her. This is Ober trying to cover up the fact that originally his office denied having had seen the “entire report.”
However, the sheriff’s office points to a form signed by an assistant state attorney saying after carefully reviewing the facts, the State Attorney Office would not be filing charges. The decision comes even after a detective saw pictures and video evidence of the teen nude and performing sexual acts on herself.
“To my knowledge none of our attorneys have seen it. When we pointed out that the detective for the sheriff’s office saw it, Sinacore agreed that was true, but wasn’t sure a crime had been committed," Sinacore says.
That’s the job, Mark Ober. If you can’t do it, find something else to do. The video is below.