A 38-year-old Long Beach man was sentenced Tuesday to more than 11 years in federal prison for pimping a 15-year-old girl in Anaheim.<\/p>\n
Placied Warren Vercher pleaded guilty July 9 to enticement of a minor to engage in prostitution and criminal sexual activity. He was also charged with production of child pornography and sex trafficking of a minor, but those counts were dismissed as part of the plea deal.<\/p>\n
U.S. District Judge David Carter sentenced the defendant to 135 months in federal prison. He recommended a sex offender program for the defendant and ordered that he continue to be held in Santa Ana Jail until prison officials can find a facility with that program.<\/p>\n
Prosecutors recommended 151 months in prison for Vercher, according to a sentencing brief.<\/p>\n
Vercher \u201cwas an adult in his 30s and preyed on a teenaged girl he knew was underaged,\u201d prosecutors said in the sentencing brief. \u201cDefendant convinced her to engage in commercial sex work \u2014 work defendant stood to profit from \u2014 even when the minor victim expressed reluctance. Defendant also convinced the minor victim to send him a video of herself engaging in sexually explicit conduct that he could use for advertising: In other words, defendant solicited and produced child pornography.\u201d<\/p>\n
A probation report showed Vercher had a \u201cchildhood marked by instability and violence, including defendant\u2019s mother\u2019s early abandonment, his father\u2019s struggles with drug abuse and incarceration, his uncle\u2019s regular abuse of defendant and other family members, and defendant\u2019s witnessing of his abusive uncle\u2019s violent murder,\u201d prosecutors said.<\/p>\n
Vercher also \u201chas repeatedly engaged in criminal behavior, including domestic violence,\u201d prosecutors said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 38-year-old Long Beach man was sentenced Tuesday to more than 11 years in federal prison for pimping…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":480020,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[174,47389,9514,131,133,132,21729,22921,360,688],"class_list":["post-480019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-beach","tag-gets","tag-girl","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-more","tag-pimping","tag-teen","tag-years"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480019","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=480019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}