Man Sentenced To Decades In Prison For Trafficking Girls
SACRAMENTO (CBS13) -- The man convicted of violently forcing underage girls into prostitution for years was sentenced to 30 years in prison and 10 years of probation, authorities said.
Sacramento resident Deandre Lornell Brown, 27, asked for leniency at his sentencing hearing Monday after his conviction on a number of counts of conspiracy, sex trafficking of children using force and coercion.
During the trial, federal prosecutors described how Brown recruited an underage girl in 2005 and used vicious physical and sexual assaults to keep the victim under his control until September 2009. In one attack, Brown inflicted severe injuries and poured bleach in the victim's wounds.
Brown forced another underage girl into prostitution into September 2009 for about two weeks, until she escaped after severe beatings and sexual assaults.
Judge Frank C. Damrell said Brown's actions "violated the laws of humanity" and inflicted "inhuman" suffering on his victims.
"They were little girls," Judge Damrell said. "You degraded them to the point of being animals."
The judge sentenced Brown to three decades in prison and another decade of supervised release, plus $5,200 in restitution. "You are going to spend most of the rest of your life thinking about what you have done," Judge Damrell said.
