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\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 LOS ANGELES<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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A South Los Angeles man was sentenced Thursday to life in federal prison for recruiting and enticing teenage girls for whom he acted as a \u201cpimp\u201d and providing them for commercial sex work.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0At Thursday’s hearing, U.S. District Judge John A. Kronstadt described 32-year-old Donavin Bradford\u2019s actions as \u201cinexcusable\u201d and \u201chorrific.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

Judge Kronstadt also ordered Bradford to pay $67,000 in restitution and $900 in special assessments.<\/span><\/p>\n

After a five-day trial, a jury on April 17 found Bradford guilty of one count of conspiracy to commit sex trafficking with a minor, three counts of sex trafficking of a minor, three counts of sexual exploitation of a minor to produce a sexually explicit visual depiction, one count of possession of child pornography, and one count of sex trafficking through threats of force, fraud, or coercion, officials stated.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"From the summer of 2021 to February 2022, Bradford conspired with Layla Kalani Valdivia, 24, of Ventura, to cause one of the minor victims\u2014a then-15-year-old girl\u2014to be used for commercial sex acts. <\/span><\/p>\n

Bradford recruited the victim to work for him as a commercial sex worker. As the victim\u2019s \u201cpimp,\u201d Bradford expected the girl to earn him $1,000 per night.<\/span><\/p>\n

Bradford and Valdivia advertised the girl for commercial sex work on various websites, and customers who responded to the ads were directed to various hotels and motels where they engaged in commercial sex acts with the victim, according to officials.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"Sometimes, the minor victim would be required to perform sex acts with Valdivia and a sex client together. Customers paid Bradford for \u201cdates\u201d with the victim, or she would be required to give Bradford or Valdivia her earnings.<\/span><\/p>\n

Bradford assaulted the minor victim when she tried to stop working for him on two separate occasions. Bradford also filmed himself engaging in sex acts on two separate occasions with her.<\/span><\/p>\n

From March 2021 to November 2021, Bradford recruited and enticed two other girls, ages 16 and 17, to engage in commercial sex activity.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"brownFrom May 2021 to August 2022, Bradford also recruited and sex trafficked an adult victim through threats of force, fraud, or coercion, including multiple instances of violence.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Bradford and Valdivia have been in federal custody since August 2022.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Bradford sex trafficked at least three minor girls and used threats of force and coercion to traffic a young adult\u2014all for his own profit,\u201d prosecutors argued in a sentencing memorandum. \u201cTo control his victims, he beat and berated them, pointed a gun in at least one victim\u2019s face, intimidated them by referring to his gang membership, filmed himself having sex with them, took their money, and destroyed their property when they dared to leave him. With at least one victim, he took her earnings from sex customers as well as her financial aid from school.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\"manValdivia pleaded guilty in December 2022 to one count of conspiracy to commit sex trafficking of a minor and one count of sex trafficking of a minor and is serving a federal prison sentence.<\/span><\/p>\n

Assistant U.S. Attorneys Chelsea Norell and Kathy Yu of the Violent and Organized Crime Section prosecuted this case.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cOperation Cross Country<\/a>,\u201d an FBI-led nationwide effort which ran in August 2022, focused on identifying and locating victims of sex trafficking and investigating and arresting individuals and criminal enterprises involved in both child sex trafficking and human trafficking.<\/span><\/p>\n

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