EDITOR'S NOTE: It is the policy of the Tyler Morning Telegraph not to identify the victims of sexual assault to protect their identities and encourage the reporting of such crimes.

By CASEY KNAUPP
Tyler Morning Telegraph Staff Writer

Young children were forced to dance and perform sexual skits at a "Mineola Swinger's Club" for food. If they told anyone, they would be beaten, the children told investigators.

Jamie Pittman, accused with five others in a "Mineola Swinger's Club" that charged money for people to watch children dance and perform sexual acts, was on trial for the second day Wednesday for committing aggravated sexual assault of a child - causing two siblings to have sex with each other - in 2004. The 36-year-old Tyler man faces up to life in prison if convicted in 241st District Judge Jack Skeen Jr.'s court.

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