A young lady has been nabbed after she engaged herself in pimping out young girls for s*xual acts with men.
Jelinajane Bedrijo Almario
Jelinajane Bedrijo Almario, a California teen was sentenced to 13 years behind bars — just two days after her 18th birthday — for pimping out younger girls for s*x.
According to New York Post, Jelinajane Bedrijo Almario, of Hanford, befriended four 14- and 15-year-old girls through other friends and social media, then forced them to turn tricks over the period of a few weeks.
The Fresno Bee reports that Almario posted photos of the girls on different prostitution sites and took them to meet johns off Highway 99 in Tulare County, according to Hanford Police Detective Richard Pontecorvo.
“These girls would run away for weekends or work a couple of nights,” Pontecorvo said.
The teen was arrested in May 2016 and, though a juvenile at the time, she was tried as an adult for human trafficking and making terroristic threats.
She was sentenced Monday.
Police said Almario also sent threatening text messages to the mother of one of her victims who was looking for her daughter.
“It was a huge eye-opener for us,” he said. “But we caught her case very early, so we were able to pull those girls out of that.”