Brooklyn man accused of sex trafficking:
Meanwhile, we still have other crimes to clear out of my inbox.
24-year-old Jamali Brockett of Brooklyn, New York has been arrested on federal charges of sex trafficking. He allegedly pimped out girls on craigslist ranging in age from 15 to 20 along the Eastern Seaboard. He would take the girls’ money and pay for their food clothes and shelter. He sexually assaulted them and would threaten them into not leaving his employ.
Let’s hear from the U.S. District Attorney…
At a brief court appearance yesterday, Assistant U.S. Attorney Pam Chen called Brockett, also known as “Marley,” “King” and “Daddy,” a “menace to society, who preyed upon young women for his own profit and sexual gratification.”
I guess his girls wouldn’t be considered victims, would they?
Queens Man Sentenced For Craigslist Pimping:
33-year-old Tyrone Waite of Jamaica, Queens was sentenced to up to seven years behind bars for being a craigslist pimp and lying to a grand jury. Not only was he a craigslist pimp but he was trying to pimp out a 13-year-old girl on craigslist. At the time of his arrest, he also had naked pics of the 13-year-old on his laptop.
As a special bonus the D.A. pontificates on prostitution being referred to as a victimless crime.
“Prostitution is not a victimless crime but a terrifying and despicable offense against society practiced by callous people who enslave young women without hope and victimize them one day at a time”, district attorney Richard A. Brown said. “This guilty plea and sentencing allowed the young victim to avoid testifying at trial and hopefully will help her to recover from her ordeal.”
Word.
Victim sues Craigslist, says shooter got gun through site:
50-year-old Calvin Gibson of New York was shot by local resident lunatic, Jesus Ortiz, back in July. Luckily Mr. Gibson survived even though he was shot six times.
Ortiz, who suffers from schizophrenia, confessed to police that he purchased the gun on craigslist. I’m going to assume that this was not what you would call a ‘legal’ purchase.
So now Mr. Gibson is suing craigslist for $10 Million.
“Defendant owed a duty to the public at large to monitor and supervise what may be bought and sold and by whom, with respect to its Internet ads,” attorney Paul Dalnoky wrote in the lawsuit filed in Manhattan Federal Court.
Wait a minute. According to craigslist their users flag ads for illegal sales and that it’s a bastion of users with good moral character. It was hard to type that without busting out into fits of laughter.
craigslist had their usual response…
Craiglist did not respond to a request for comment.
Quelle surprise.
24-year-old Daniel Brandtof New York City went to a Coney Island apartment to meet what he thought was going to be a woman he met on craigslist. Instead, Brandt was shot in the head and two men ran off. Brandt later died at the hospital.
Police say they know who the suspects are and are awaiting search warrants.
Thanks to Gothamist.
Teen in Connetquot school plot avoids jail:
17-year-old Michael McDonough, he of the Fry Cook Plot against Connetquot High School in Long Island, has pleaded guilty to charges of first-degree reckless endangerment and fourth-degree conspiracy.
Under the plea, McDonough avoids jail time but must remain on probation for 5 years. If he violates his probation the judge has threatened to send him to an upstate New York prison, you know, like Attica or Sing Sing.
McDonough apologized in court and prosecutors seem to be happy with his progress since his arrest.
Queens couple used 2 Internet teen girls for sex, prosecutors say:
22-year-old Sophie Soto and her husband, 31-year-old Julio Rojas, have been arrested for an assortment of charges. I’ll let the article explain the travesties they’ve committed…
The sordid saga began in late 2006, when Sophie Soto, 22, used the MySpace social networking site to contact one of the girls, prosecutors said Monday in a statement. Soto told the girl that she was an 18-year-old virgin who had sexual relations with girls and was planning to have sex with a boy but was nervous and wanted the girl to be with her, they said.
The girl wrote back to Soto and said she would be there and would take a friend along, and their relationship developed through telephone and Internet instant-message conversations, prosecutors said.
When the girls showed up at Soto’s Queens apartment in January 2007, she liquored them up and took them into a bedroom, where she sexually abused them before her husband, Julio Rojas, 31, had sexual intercourse with all three, District Attorney Richard Brown said.
Later that night, the couple took the girls, who were under 15 but were given fake identification cards, to a Manhattan strip club, where Soto and an exotic dancer dragged them on stage, slipped their clothes off and made them have oral sex with patrons, the district attorney said.
Together, the pair face a 56-count indictment including charges of rape, sexual abuse, and using a child in a sexual performance.
While the ultimate responsibility for these crimes ultimately lays with the multiple rapist scumbags that did this to these poor girls, it still has to be asked.
Where in the hell were these girls’ parents?
Why aren’t the attorneys general looking into that?
Again, no, not John Lennon’s son.
Ravena man pleads guilty to raping teen he met on MySpace:
I originally posted about Sean Lennon here. He was arrested over the summer for having sex with a 14-year-old girl he met on MySpace. The 21-year-old from Ravena, New York pleaded guilty to one count of Use of a Child in a Sexual Performance and one count of Rape in the Third Degree, both felonies.
Under the terms of the plea bargain, Lennon will serve seven years in prison and ten years post release supervision. He also must to register as a sex offender and have no contact with the victim.