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Mon 2 Feb 2004
6:52pm (UK) Lap Dance Club 'Employed Girl, 15'
By Owen Fairclough, PA News
Lap dancing chain Spearmint Rhino was tonight investigating claims that a 15-year-old girl got a job at one of its clubs.
The firm launched the probe after the teenager, now 16, allegedly found work at the Spearmint Rhino Extreme in Birmingham.
Employees are supposed to be 18 or over and produce identification to prove their age.
The teenager, who no longer works at the venue, was said to have worked three nights a week, earning £300 a shift, after she was expelled from school.
A spokesman for the club said he was unable to comment on the case, but the firm’s solicitor, Mark Spragg, told the Birmingham Evening Mail: “This is something that they take very seriously and a full investigation is being launched.
“Previously, it had always been a requirement that a dancer produce photo ID.”
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Yoda I would agree that yes the 14 year old girls do dress sexier and try to look more adult these days but it isn't just clothes and attitude there is a little bady there too. We all have our own experiences. I graduated HS in 79, I didn't go to the biggest school in the world but when the girls were 14-15 they still looked like girls they didn't start changing into anyhting that would be confused with a woman until 17 or 18 a few maybe 10% at 16, but even one year 15 to 16 or 16 to 17 was enough to make a world of difference. So I know we are only talking about a difference of 2 or 3 years or a 25 span but it is enough to make the difference between the likelyhood of fake ID'd 15 year old passing for 18 - 20 being greater today than it was 20 years ago. Back then it was possible but very rare, today maybe it is not likely but also not out of the rare either.