Texas Man Jailed For Forcing Teenage Daughter To Sell Sex

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

A Texas father forced his 16-year-old daughter to have sex with truckers for money after learning that she had an active sex life, People magazine confirms.

On Monday, the man pleaded guilty to the charge of aggravated prostitution, the same day he was sentenced to 30 years in prison, a Harris County court official confirms. (To keep the identity of the victim anonymous, People is not using his father's name.)

The Baytown, Texas man was arrested for the sex crime in June 2015, after the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children received an anonymous call that a father was "pimping" his daughter, according to a statement released by the Harris County District Attorney's Office.

According to JoAnne Musick, chief of the Sex Crimes Division of the DA office, the 16-year-old told investigators in 2014 that she was forced into prostitution by her father after he learned that she had had sex with a partner..

"Basically, he said, 'Well, if that's how you are going to act, we could also make money," says Musick.

Several times a week, the girl was forced by her father to knock on the doors of trucks that were in parking lots and offer sex for money, according to the statement.

"When it turned out to be lucrative, he upped the ante and placed it on [the portal] Backpage and took it to more of the sex industry by posting photos and setting dates," says Musick.

The father's online messages described his daughter as "sexy and sweet," "super clean," and the "perfect girl" who wanted to "party," reports ABC7.

"It is sad and horrible," Musick says of the crime, adding that the girl's mother had passed away and that the money earned from this criminal practice went to the family's expenses.

The 46-year-old father has remained behind bars since his arrest in June