RIVERSIDE, CALIFORNIA – Two Inland Empire residents have pleaded guilty to federal sex trafficking charging, admitting they forced a 14-year-old girl to work as a prostitute in 2012, officials said.
Kawaum Marquez Scott, 24, of Quail Valley, and Nekeyia Necole Weatherspoon, who also used the name “Keey Bee,” 22, of Perris, pleaded guilty Tuesday.
Scott pleaded guilty to two counts of sex trafficking of a child, and Weatherspoon pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to engage in child sex trafficking, officials said.
Scott is expected to be sentenced to 17 years and six months; Weatherspoon will get from seven to 14 years in prison.
According to court documents, Scott and Weatherspoon forced the 14-year-old victim into prostitution.
The defendants, who took photos of the victims and used the pictures to advertise services on the Internet, drove the victim to destinations in Hemet to engage in prostitution, made her use an alias, and advised her to tell male customers that she was 18 years old.
Scott and Weatherspoon took all the money paid to the girl for the sex acts.
According to an affidavit filed in this case, on one occasion in October 2012, Scott and Weatherspoon brought the victim to a motel in Hemet, where she engaged in sex with multiple men over a two-day period, and received approximately $2,500 in payment, all of which went to the defendants.