A 17-year-old Phoenix girl was sent to prison Thursday for running a child-prostitution ring that recruited and pandered girls as young as 14.
Jazmine Finley, whom a judge called the ringleader of the prostitutes, was sentenced to three years in prison to be followed by three years of supervised probation. Last month, her accomplice, Tatiana Tye, 16, was sentenced to three years of supervised probation.
Finley and Tye met at Carl Hayden High School in Phoenix.
According to court reports, the two girls worked as prostitutes themselves and recruited as many as five other girls to work for them, promising them that they would not beat them up like male pimps. They also arranged trysts for which the girls were paid as little as $50 to perform sex acts.
They were arrested in February after a five-month investigation by Phoenix Police.
Tye was allowed to plead guilty to one count of pandering. Finley pleaded guilty to solicitation to commit child prostitution and attempted child prosecution.
Finley apologized to the court for her actions. Her defense attorney explained that she had obtained her GED certificate and had a baby while in jail awaiting resolution of her case. Her parents attended court with the newborn infant.
Sounds like an entertainment value to me. The girls should be applauded rather than punished.
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