Jerreck Michael Hilliard, Sex Trafficking, Texas 2022

HOUSTON RESIDENT SENTENCED TO 292 MONTHS IN FEDERAL PRISON FOR SEX TRAFFICKING

Jerreck Michael Hilliard, a 35-year-old Houston resident, has been sentenced to 292 months in federal prison for sex trafficking of a minor, announced U.S. Attorney Alamdar S. Hamdani.

Hilliard pleaded guilty to the charges on October 12, 2022. U.S. District Judge George C. Hanks Jr. handed down the prison term after hearing evidence that Hilliard had offered to teach another person the ‘pimp game’ who then allegedly victimized numerous vulnerable young girls and women using violence and manipulation.

‘Heinous things have happened to these victims that ultimately led them into the sights of the criminals who target and prey on them,’ said Hamdani. ‘What Hilliard did was reprehensible. It is no defense that a victim may have previously been involved in prostitution. Today, this victim blaming stops.’

From April 2019 to February 2020, Hilliard and others were involved in a sex trafficking conspiracy occurring on the Bissonnet ‘blade.’ The ‘blade’ or ‘track’ is an area near I-59 Southwest Freeway and Bissonnet Street in Houston where pimps and traffickers commonly place their victims to engage in commercial sex.

Hilliard and co-conspirators recruited young teenage girls and forced them to engage in sex acts with clients for money in cars and hotels around the blade. Co-conspirators also passed around or reassigned victims amongst one another, coached each other on the ‘pimp game’ and forced the young girls to walk the area while the traffickers kept the proceeds.

Hilliard will remain in custody pending transfer to a U.S. Bureau of Prisons facility to be determined in the near future.

The Houston Police Department initiated the investigation with the assistance of Homeland Security Investigations and the Harris County District Attorney’s Office as a part of the Human Trafficking Rescue Alliance (HTRA).

Hilliard was also ordered to serve 10 years on supervised release following completion of his prison term and will have to comply with numerous requirements designed to restrict his access to children and the internet. He will also be ordered to register as a sex offender.

The exact amount for restitution has yet to be determined.

Hilliard’s exact criminal charges are sex trafficking of a minor.

He will be serving his prison term in a U.S. Bureau of Prisons facility to be determined in the near future.

Hilliard’s crime occurred on the Bissonnet ‘blade’ in Houston, Texas.

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