FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 A Fresno man was sentenced Wednesday to 62 years to life in state prison for human trafficking and sexual offenses involving three minors, according to the Fresno County District Attorney\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n
38 year old Brandon Antonio Correia was convicted by a Fresno County Superior Court jury on July 16 of human trafficking, pimping, pandering and multiple sexual offenses. <\/p>\n
Prosecutors said Correia trafficked a 14-year-old girl through force, fear, violence and sexually assaulted her.<\/p>\n
According to prosecutors, Correia also trafficked a 17-year-old girl who he met at a bus stop after school. He took her to a motel where another 14-year-old victim was staying.<\/p>\n
Prosecutors said Correia directed both girls to engage in prostitution and collected the money they earned.<\/p>\n
In another case, prosecutors said Correia approached a third victim near her high school bus stop when she was 17 and tried to recruit her for prostitution.<\/p>\n
When she refused, prosecutors said Correia engaged in sexual acts with her. The victim also reported he physically restrained and assaulted her when she tried to leave.<\/p>\n
Fresno County Superior Court Judge Brian Alvarez imposed the 62 years to life sentence on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 A Fresno man was sentenced Wednesday to 62 years to life in state prison…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":445665,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-445664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=445664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/445665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}