i hate pimps...
"Jan 16, 2005 6:37 pm US/Eastern
(1010 WINS) (NEW YORK) A Long Island pimp named Romeo who forced two "young and vulnerable" runaway teenage girls into prostitution, beat them and took all the money they earned turning tricks has been sentenced to up to six years in prison, prosecutors said.
The pimp, Woodolph Romeo, 25, lured the 13- and 14-year-old girls into his prostitution business, repeatedly sexually attacked them and forced them to have sex with scores of male customers, Queens District Attorney Richard Brown said in announcing the sentencing.
"The case proves that prostitution is not a victimless crime but rather a despicable offense against society committed by predators who enslave young women a day at a time," Brown said in a statement.
Romeo, of Elmont, put the girls to work near John F. Kennedy International Airport in an area known as the Track, where they performed oral sex for $40 and sexual intercourse for $100 in cheap motels, the district attorney said. The girls worked for Romeo three or four times a week from October 2001 to May 2004, having sex with up to 15 men each night, prosecutors said.
The girls told investigators that they had to make a certain amount of money each night or face being beaten and that they couldn't leave Romeo because they were afraid he would find them.
Romeo punched the 14-year-old in the face, leaving her with a scar under her right eye, and forced her to have "Romeo" tattooed on her arm, prosecutors said when the charges were filed in August.
Romeo pleaded guilty Nov. 16 to second-degree attempted promoting prostitution before Queens Supreme Court Justice Dorothy Chin-Brandt, who imposed Friday's sentence of two to six years in prison.
Romeo was charged Aug. 23 with kidnapping, promoting prostitution, assault, rape and performing a criminal sexual act and could have faced up to 25 years in prison if convicted at trial. He had been held on $250,000 bail after his arrest at Rikers Island jail, where he was locked up on an unrelated robbery charge."
"Jan 16, 2005 6:37 pm US/Eastern
(1010 WINS) (NEW YORK) A Long Island pimp named Romeo who forced two "young and vulnerable" runaway teenage girls into prostitution, beat them and took all the money they earned turning tricks has been sentenced to up to six years in prison, prosecutors said.
The pimp, Woodolph Romeo, 25, lured the 13- and 14-year-old girls into his prostitution business, repeatedly sexually attacked them and forced them to have sex with scores of male customers, Queens District Attorney Richard Brown said in announcing the sentencing.
"The case proves that prostitution is not a victimless crime but rather a despicable offense against society committed by predators who enslave young women a day at a time," Brown said in a statement.
Romeo, of Elmont, put the girls to work near John F. Kennedy International Airport in an area known as the Track, where they performed oral sex for $40 and sexual intercourse for $100 in cheap motels, the district attorney said. The girls worked for Romeo three or four times a week from October 2001 to May 2004, having sex with up to 15 men each night, prosecutors said.
The girls told investigators that they had to make a certain amount of money each night or face being beaten and that they couldn't leave Romeo because they were afraid he would find them.
Romeo punched the 14-year-old in the face, leaving her with a scar under her right eye, and forced her to have "Romeo" tattooed on her arm, prosecutors said when the charges were filed in August.
Romeo pleaded guilty Nov. 16 to second-degree attempted promoting prostitution before Queens Supreme Court Justice Dorothy Chin-Brandt, who imposed Friday's sentence of two to six years in prison.
Romeo was charged Aug. 23 with kidnapping, promoting prostitution, assault, rape and performing a criminal sexual act and could have faced up to 25 years in prison if convicted at trial. He had been held on $250,000 bail after his arrest at Rikers Island jail, where he was locked up on an unrelated robbery charge."
