Northern California lady sentenced for intercourse-trafficking teenager ladies

SACRAMENTO — A California woman who recruited 3 teenage women for prostitution, plying them with alcohol and prescription drugs whilst promoting them on-line for intercourse functions, was sentenced Monday to 17 yrs and 7 months in federal jail.

Dawniel Santangelo, 44, of Stockton, recruited the women, ages 15, 16 and 17, for prostitution in Northern California and Southern Oregon in between September 2018 and May possibly 2019, according to a assertion from the U.S. Section of Justice.

Santangelo “enticed the ladies to conduct sexual intercourse acts for strangers by giving liquor, medicine, and building a get together atmosphere in motels in Stockton and Salinas. She then posted on the internet prostitution ads depicting the victims and brought the victims to truck stops and motels to have intercourse with guys for money” that she and a co-defendant took, the assertion stated.

“After the victims began partaking in industrial sex functions, Santangelo urged them to keep on, reassuring them when they felt insecure,” the assertion explained.

The scheme ended in May 2019 when a 15-calendar year-previous runaway whom Santangelo experienced recruited from the Modesto area known as her relatives for assistance and law enforcement located her, Santangelo and Lucious James Roy, 34, in a Medford, Oregon motel home, prosecutors mentioned.

Santangelo was sentenced for conspiracy to have interaction in sex trafficking of a baby, three counts of sex trafficking a child and transporting a minor with intent to have interaction in felony sexual action.

Last year, Roy was sentenced to 17 yrs and 7 months in prison following pleading guilty to conspiracy to have interaction in sexual intercourse trafficking of a baby.