A 35-year-old Boston man was sentenced to more than 11 years in prison this week for trafficking a minor for sex and coercing multiple women to cross state lines to engage in prostitution, according to acting U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts Joshua S.
Levy’s office. U.S.
District Court Judge Leo T. Sorokin sentenced Jimall Dawn Brown to 135 months (111⁄4 years) in prison followed by five years of supervised release, Levy’s office said in a statement. Brown pleaded guilty to charges of sex trafficking of a minor, transporting an individual in interstate commerce with the intent that they engage in prostitution and persuading and coercing an individual to travel in interstate commerce to engage in prostitution in April, according to Levy’s office.
Brown’s crimes date back to May 2016, when he persuaded a woman to fly from Pennsylvania to Massachusetts to engage in prostitution, telling her he had a modeling agency and he wanted to work with her. Brown offered to pay for the woman’s plane ticket and provide for her when she arrived. When the woman got to Boston, Brown took photos of her and posted them on websites advertising commercial sex, according to Levy’s office.
He then forced the woman to have commercial sex and made her give him all the money. Then, in 2019, Brown met a woman in Connecticut, telling her he could provide a “luxurious” life for her in Boston. When the woman came to Massachusetts, Brown posted online ads with her photo on commercial sex we.