vielleicht so was wie auf den strich schicken

"pimp out, to - To modify a car to make it look sweet ass"

That's the context I know the term from, it means "aufdonnern etc."

IMO it would make sense in W's example:
" achtjähriger Mädchen als XYZ aufdonnern, herrichten, aufmachen etc."

@Herb: im Textzusammenhang schaut es (leider!!!) so aus, als ob hier schon gemeint ist, die Mädchen werden Freiern angeboten.
pimp - Zuhälter

@Herb:
Guess that's what happens when you learn English from music videos and MTV shows ;-)
The original meaning of 'pimp' is 'Zuhaelter' and 'to pimp' would therefore be, well, whatever it is a German 'Zuhaelter' does (I guess it's not 'zuhalten'?!? - Kichererbse's 'auf den Strich schicken' seems to be a good translation but maybe someone else knows a more poignant way of saying it?).
Only later, through the increasing popularity of 'gangsta rap' etc, 'pimp' was used (in a bragging way) to describe someone successful with woman and, by extension, became an adjective, describing something 'badass', 'cool' and 'bling' ... now turning this into a verb, we get the meaning that Herb refers to, as popularized by the MTV show 'pimp my ride' (i.e. to take something average and normal and turn it into something tricked out and 'pimp')

@bike_helmut: the verb "to pimp" obviously has to do with having women "work" for you, but the meaning of "pimp out" has a slightly different origin. Especially among black ghetto youth in the forties and fifties, a pimp was often admired, because he could afford a fancy car (a.k.a. pimp mobile), fancy clothes, even gold teeth, and he always had a wad of cash on him (if he was a "good" pimp). So starting with the "pimp mobile" (usually a Cadillac), that's where "pimping out" took off and got its current meaning of pimping out a ride.

Of course, in context with 8-year-old girls, the meaning is totally different... and much sadder.

@Kai: I thought that's what I just said?

sorry, I just got going and couldn't stop myself.

The Clintons were accused of pimping out their daughter in the primaries.

pimping somebody out - jemanden verkuppeln. Siehe the L-Word Season 3, Teil 9: Carmen sagt zu ihrer Familie: Mom, stop it. You are pimping Shane out (Shane ist die (gay) Partnerin von Carmen).

pimping out is NOT verkuppeln!

Pimping out is more like using someone. (I have seen this episode of the L-Word and from the context, I don't think it matches...)

Bei Kindern spricht man m.W. nicht von Prostitution, sondern von sexuellem Missbrauch gegen Geld. Allerdings kommt es natürlich auf die Intention etc. des Ausgangstextes an.