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Boston Man Sentenced to 8 Years for Sex Trafficking
BOSTON – A Boston man was sentenced to 8 years in prison for sex trafficking a 15-year-old girl.
Mark Pinnock, 23, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Nathaniel M. Gorton to 8 years in prison and 5 years of supervised release. In August 2014, Pinnock pleaded guilty to recruiting and transporting a minor to engage in prostitution.
According to the investigation, in late December 2013, officers responded to an emergency call from a Cambridge hotel, where they found the 15-year-old victim and Pinnock. The minor stated that Justin Richardson and Martin Pinkney had arranged for her to travel by bus from Baltimore to Boston. Pictures were taken of her in both Baltimore and Boston and used to post ads soliciting prostitution customers on the websites backpage.com and Craigslist. While in Boston, the minor victim engaged in sex for a fee at the direction of Pinnock at two local hotels.
The case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Seth Kosto and Carlos Lopez, both members of U.S. Attorney Carmen M. Ortiz’s Civil Rights Enforcement Team. The U.S. Attorney’s Office also wishes to thank the Middlesex County District Attorney Marian C. Ryan’s Office for its participation in the investigation.
The enforcement of federal civil rights laws is a high priority of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts. Since U.S. Attorney Ortiz created the Civil Rights Enforcement Team in 2010, the Office has substantially increased its efforts in civil and criminal civil rights enforcement actions. In the last four years, the office has charged an increasing number of defendants with sex trafficking and other criminal civil rights violations.
Pinnock’s co-defendants, Justin Richardson and Martin Pinkney, will be sentenced on December 19 and 22, respectively.
Key Facts
- State: Massachusetts
- Category: Sex Crimes|Human Trafficking
- Source: DOJ Press Release â†â€â€
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