A Fort Lauderdale will spend the next seven plus years in prison after police say he forced a 14-year-old girl to work for him as a prostitute.
The Miami U.S. Attorney's Office said in a news release Monday that 27-year-old Leon Roberts had been sentenced. Roberts was convicted of sex trafficking a minor in August.
Trial evidence showed that the girl worked as a prostitute for two months in 2016 at a hotel.
After a dispute between Roberts and his girlfriend, Roberts called police to claim the girlfriend was acting as the teenager's pimp.
When police arrived, the teen told officers Roberts was actually her pimp.
Other evidence traced Internet ads about the girl back to Roberts' email address.