Whitey Ford
03-08-2021, 06:23 AM
NJ Human Trafficker Gets 50 Years For Forcing Girl, 17, Into Prostitution
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Superior Court Judge Darlene J. Pereksta on Thursday sentenced Ashley Gardener, 32, for a series of jury convictions for human trafficking, promoting prostitution and child endangerment, among other crimes.
Pereksta sentenced Gardener to 50 years altogether, 40% of which she must serve before she can seek a parole hearing.
It marked the final chapter in what authorities said was a prime example of a crime that occurs “in the shadows, outside of public view.”
It began in January 2018 when New Jersey State Police troopers found the 17-year-old victim walking along Route 295 in Lawrence Township.
The teen told them she’d escaped from a hotel where “she was being forced to perform sex acts,” state Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said.
They found that Gardener and co-defendant Breon Mickens, 28, also of Trenton, took the victim to a series of Mercer County hotels, where she was “deprived of food, given marijuana to smoke and prohibited from calling her family,” Grewal said.
Holding her captive, they forced her into prostitution with four to 15 men per day, he said.
https://dailyvoice.com/new-jersey/northpassaic/news/nj-human-trafficker-gets-50-years-for-forcing-girl-17-into-prostitution/804460/
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Superior Court Judge Darlene J. Pereksta on Thursday sentenced Ashley Gardener, 32, for a series of jury convictions for human trafficking, promoting prostitution and child endangerment, among other crimes.
Pereksta sentenced Gardener to 50 years altogether, 40% of which she must serve before she can seek a parole hearing.
It marked the final chapter in what authorities said was a prime example of a crime that occurs “in the shadows, outside of public view.”
It began in January 2018 when New Jersey State Police troopers found the 17-year-old victim walking along Route 295 in Lawrence Township.
The teen told them she’d escaped from a hotel where “she was being forced to perform sex acts,” state Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said.
They found that Gardener and co-defendant Breon Mickens, 28, also of Trenton, took the victim to a series of Mercer County hotels, where she was “deprived of food, given marijuana to smoke and prohibited from calling her family,” Grewal said.
Holding her captive, they forced her into prostitution with four to 15 men per day, he said.
https://dailyvoice.com/new-jersey/northpassaic/news/nj-human-trafficker-gets-50-years-for-forcing-girl-17-into-prostitution/804460/