Jamaican sentenced to 11 years in US jail for little one intercourse trafficking

Twenty-four-year-old Jamaican, Joel Lindsay, often known as ‘Joey Guapo,’ was sentenced to 11 years in a federal jail in the US for intercourse trafficking of a minor.

He was sentenced in Hartford, Connecticut, on Thursday.

Lindsay was arrested on August 20, 2020, and on October 15, 2021, he pleaded responsible to intercourse trafficking of a minor

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He colluded with an affiliate, Joseph Pina, in October 2019 to recruit, seduce, and switch a 16-year-old lady to interact in industrial intercourse acts, in accordance with proof introduced in court docket.

Pina pleaded responsible to conspiracy to commit intercourse trafficking of a minor and was sentenced to eight years imprisonment earlier this 12 months.

It was revealed in court docket that Lindsay, Pina, and one other particular person picked up the lady and took her to a resort on October 17, 2019.

They photographed the minor on the resort and shared them on an internet site to promote her sexual providers. Each Lindsay and Pina then arrange prostitution appointments for the kid.

The minor earned at the very least $100 from prostitution periods that evening, which she gave to Lindsay.

Lindsay and Pina positioned different ads and scheduled prostitution appointments for the minor at different accommodations over the following three nights.

It was additionally revealed within the investigation that the boys had sexual relations with the minor sufferer, which she reported to investigators, stating that Lindsay bodily assaulted her.

Joel Lindsay faces deportation to Jamaica after serving his sentence.