A Los Angeles man who pimped teenagers right into a “horrific” intercourse trafficking scheme, stole their earnings and beat up ladies who tried to cease working for him, will spend the remainder of his life in federal jail.
Donaven Dwayne Bradford, 32, was sentenced to life in jail on a slew of fees together with intercourse trafficking, sexual exploitation of a minor, possession of kid pornography and intercourse trafficking by risk of power, fraud or coercion.
The Justice Division introduced that he was convicted in April of crimes that the choose on Thursday described as “horrific” and “unjustified.”
Prosecutors mentioned Bradford conspired with Leila Kalani Valdivia to recruit and lure three teenage ladies, ages 15, 16 and 17, into business intercourse work from 2021 to 2022. One woman was anticipated to earn $1,000 an evening and was pressured to have intercourse with him. Which Bradford photographed.
When the victims tried to cease working with him, Bradford would threaten them, prosecutors mentioned.
“To regulate his victims, he beat and berated them, pointed a gun at not less than one sufferer, intimidated them by referring to his gang membership, filmed himself having intercourse with them, took their cash, and destroyed their property after they dared to take action.” “Depart him alone,” the sentencing word mentioned. “With not less than one sufferer, he took her earnings from intercourse purchasers in addition to her monetary support from college.”
Bradford and Valdivia had been arrested in August 2022.
Valdivia pleaded responsible to conspiracy to commit intercourse trafficking of a minor and intercourse trafficking of a minor and is serving a federal jail sentence.