Akon just lost a huge sponsorship with Verizon Wireless after selecting a weird “dance routine” for a concert in Trinidad. He is also being threatened with prosecution for emulating rape with a 15 year old “dancer.”

The young girl was under the impression that winning the dance contest would get her a trip to Africa, but instead she was turned out on stage.

The rapper invited 15-year-old Danah Alleyne onto the stage, and the girl obliged, thinking that she was entering a dance contest to win a “trip to Africa,” as Akon promised. But when Alleyne “won” the contest, the “trip to Africa” turned out to be an on-stage encounter with Akon during which her “head was hitting the floor, said Alleyne to the Trinidad Express (via FOX News).

In its account of the incident, the Trinidad Express said that the “Smack That” rapper was “turning, twisting and even flipping [the girl's] body,” while “mimicking sexual positions” and sandwiching the girl with the assistance of another performer. The Security Minister Fitzgerald Hinds said, in FOX News’ report, that Akon should be prosecuted.

Do you think that Akon should be sent back to the slammer for gross imposition of a minor?

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