Teenage madam gets 5 years

Madam who ran online teen prostitution sentenced:
Back in the early days of this site, way back in September of 2007, I posted about the teenage madam from Minnesota, Justine Alex Reisdorf, aka Deja.

She was arrested for running a prostitution ring made up mostly of high school girls some of which were underage.

Yesterday Ms. Reisdorf was sentenced to 5 years in the federal pen. Reisdorf copped to a plea in order to avoid a mandatory 10 year minimum sentence if convicted.

U.S. District Judge Patrick Schiltz commented on the severity of the human trafficking charge…

Schiltz said five years in prison followed by three years of supervised release was reasonable in her case. “Human trafficking of a minor is a truly awful crime,” Schiltz said. Some victims have described it as worse than death, and some have chosen death by committing suicide to escape it, he added.

Schiltz said he did not believe it’s less harmful to be betrayed by a peer or a friend and it might even be considered an escalating factor “because Miss Reisdorf knew the harm that could be done.”

Furthermore, the record shows that Reisdorf allegedly threatened an underage witness. Schiltz said he wanted Reisdorf and others who might engage in such activities to know “that serious crimes come with serious consequences.”

Some people who frequent this site seem to think that legalizing prostitution would solve the problems of human trafficking and child prostitution. Those people are fools who don’t realize that it would only drive it underground even further.

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