Couple charged in Queens child prostitution case
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“The two defendants in this case used a teenager below the age of consent to enrich themselves.”
Queens DA's new Human Trafficking Bureau will prosecute sex traffickers, pimps and johns
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“The bureau will combat those who would victimize others with aggressive investigations to end this industry.”
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The two defendants allegedly prostituted their victim in Queens, Brooklyn and Harlem between 2014 and 2018.
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"Victims of heinous crimes like sexual assault and human trafficking should not have to live in constant fear that their assailant could find and potentially hurt them again.”
Read MoreRidgewood man pleads guilty to trafficking teen girls
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Eddy Florence, 34, admitted to placing prostitution advertisements on various escort service websites, such as Backpage.com, for the two teen victims, aged 13 and 15.
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“Immigrants cannot wait another year.”
Read MoreQueens couple sentenced for pimping women and teen
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The couple also attempted to pimp a 20-year-old woman in 2017, but she managed to escape.
Read MoreNew documentary demonstrates how a Queens court tackles trafficking
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“Blowin’ Up” is a documentary that explores the hurdles faced by women arrested and prosecuted for prostitution in Queens.
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The defendants hired the 21-year-old victim under the guise of a job as an exotic dancer and stripper.
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“The victim suffered extensively at the hands of the defendant and will have to deal with the trauma she endured for the rest of her life.”
Read MoreMan Who Trafficked Teen From Australia to Queens Sentenced
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A Jamaica man will spend more than three decades in prison after he was convicted on charges related to his exploitation of a 16-year-old Australian girl, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York announced on Friday
Read MoreQueens Sex Trafficker Faces Sentencing
/By David Brand
Raul Granados-Rendon, a leader of the Granados family sex trafficking ring based in Mexico, pleaded guilty to sex trafficking conspiracy and faces sentencing today in Brooklyn federal court.
U.S. District Judge Kiyo A. Matsumoto presides over sentencing in Courtroom 6C South.
Granados-Rendon was indicted in 2011 for operating a family-run sex trafficking organization based in Tenancingo, Mexico.
Court documents revealed that between October 1998 and June 2011, Granados-Rendon, and other members of his sex trafficking organization smuggled dozens of young women into the United States from Mexico and forced them into sex work in Queens. From there, the women were transported to other parts of the northeast.
Prosecutors said that victims were beaten or sexually assaulted by members of the organization if they refused to perform sex work. Victims said that Granados-Rendon and other traffickers threatened to harm their families in Mexico if they resisted sex work.
In 2015, USA Today reported that members of the sex trafficking ring handed out pamphlets in Spanish called “Chica cards” to passersby along Roosevelt Avenue, one of Queens’ busiest thoroughfares. The pamphlets advertised a phone number to call for cheap sex.
The Eastern District of New York courthouse // Eagle file photo
