A cruel pimp who forced a 14-year-old girl to sell her body on Brooklyn’s “Penn Track,” a notorious open-air sex market, will spend 15 years in federal prison.
Justin Dixon made the teen and two other women go naked and serve him in his Staten Island home, bathing him and cleaning and cooking for him, according to prosecutors
And he’d force the teen to walk along the “Penn Track,” a strip of road off Pennsylvania Ave. in East New York, where she would meet johns and give him the money she earned.
The 34-year-old Crips member was sentenced Monday by Brooklyn Federal Court Judge William Kuntz. He pleaded guilty in November 2024 to coercion and enticement of a minor and a federal felon-with-a-firearm charge.
“Today’s sentencing holds the defendant accountable for the violence and cruelty to women and children caused by his unthinkable actions,” U.S. Attorney Joseph Nocella said in a statement Monday.
Dixon met the teen on Instagram on Jan. 22, 2023, picked her up and brought her to his Staten Island house in New Springville, a block away from the Staten Island Mall, according to prosecutors. He took her phone and told her she’d need to earn it back by having sex for pay.
Four days later, the FBI swarmed the house, after getting a tip that Dixon was forcing a 14-year-old into prostitution.
Dixon slapped the teen at one point because he didn’t like the way she was looking at him, called her “tiny,” overfed her, forced her to take pills to increase her appetite and said he was going to get her breast implants.
“The defendant is dangerous, manipulative and deeply harmed the most vulnerable members of our society,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Lorena Michelen wrote in a Nov. 14 sentencing memo.
Prosecutors were asking for 15 to 18 years, while Dixon’s lawyer, Mia Eisner-Grynberg of the Federal Defenders, also pushed for a 15-year sentence, writing in a Nov. 5 filing that Dixon’s conduct was far less violent than other pimps charged with Penn Track-related crimes.
“That this person turned out to be 14 years old is, to be sure, abhorrent. But before joining Mr. Dixon’s home, the minor materially misrepresented herself to him as an adult sex worker,” she wrote. “Her Instagram account, received from the government in discovery, shows that prior to meeting Mr. Dixon, she advertised herself online as a ‘sex therapist.’”
Dixon also left town at one point, and the teen had access to her phone and his gun throughout the four-day period before the FBI raid, and even posed with his firearm in a cell-phone video, the lawyer wrote.