10 busted in sick NYC sex-trafficking of 16-year-old girl: ‘Nightmare of abuse and exploitation'
The unidentified teen testified against her abusers, with 10 people now facing felony charges in the ring that saw the helpless girl beaten and sold for sex from the Big Apple to Atlantic City between December 2022 and March 2024, Bronx District Attorney Darcel Clark said in a press release.
'This young girl lived a nightmare of abuse and exploitation that began with a dating app,' Clark said in a statement about the 79-count indictment. 'The victim courageously testified in the grand jury to expose her alleged traffickers and rapists.'
3 Bronx prosecutors said a 16-year-old girl was sex trafficked for months, including out of this local motel in 2023.
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The teen's months of terror began after she allegedly met 49-year-old Tesean Green on the dating app 'Tagged,' prosecutors said.
Within weeks Green and his co-defendants were allegedly pimping out the girl, impersonating her on online to lure 'johns' and plying her with Ecstasy before the encounters — then keeping the cash.
The teen was also forced to sell crack to the men who paid to molest her.
Green and his sick cohorts allegedly tracked the girl's movements and used force to keep her in line, at one point striking her so hard that she suffered a fractured jaw, the DA said.
3 A 16-year-old sex-trafficking victim was lured into a nightmare through an online dating app, Bronx prosecutors said.
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In October 2023, co-defendants Jamel Cameron and Brianna Jamison, both of Queens, allegedly held her at a Bronx motel for dates they set up through the website MegaPersonals.com, prosecutors said.
The remaining suspects are charged with having sex with the teen, they said.
In all, 10 people were charged with a slew of charges including sex trafficking a child, promoting prostitution, rape, use of a child in a sexual performance, and endangering the welfare of a child.
Tesean Green is currently jailed in New Jersey, with his Bronx arraignment pending.
Cameron, 30, was ordered held on $150,000 cash bail or a $300,000 bond, while Jamison, 27, was being held on $10,000 cash or a $25,000 bond, prosecutors said.
Joshua Green, 38, Tesean's uncle, was ordered held on $100,000 cash bail or a $200,000 bond.
3 Bronx DA Darcel Clark said the teen sex-trafficking victim courageously testified and helped convict her sick abusers.
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The remaining six defendants — Shandel Briggs, 27; Luis Muicela, 43; Dale Gordon, 27; Jaquan Cherry, 31; John Adebiyi, 26; and Richard Stanley, 55 — were charged and released without bail.
'Please remember that there is help for victims of trafficking,' Clark said in the statement. 'We can get you out of it and protect you.'
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