NORFOLK, Va. – A New York woman was sentenced today to 76 months in prison for sex trafficking of a minor. Her co-defendant, also from New York, Omel McLean, 54, was previously sentenced to 30 years in prison for sex trafficking by force, fraud, and coercion.
According to court documents, for at least a decade beginning around 2010, McLean maintained a group of women and minors based in New York City whom he forced to engage in commercial sex. He controlled them with physical abuse, using a baseball bat and paddles to discipline them, and by providing and restricting their access to illegal controlled substances. McLean commonly required minors he recruited to have sex with him first. He impregnated several of his victims and then further manipulated them by restricting access to their children.
McLean recruited his co-defendant, Antoinette Finklea, 26, when she was herself a minor. Eventually, she supervised the group of women and minors for McLean. She posted advertisements and arranged the commercial sex acts. When she was old enough to travel out of state, she would bring women and minors to the Hampton Roads area, where McLean had a substantial client base.
McLean and his accomplice were sentenced in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. U.S. District Judge Raymond A. Jackson presided over the sentencing.
Assistant U.S. Attorneys Megan Montoya and Rebecca Gantt prosecuted the case.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Washington, D.C., Norfolk Police, and Virginia Beach Police all worked together to bring McLean and Finklea to justice.
A copy of this press release is located on the website of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia.
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Key Facts
- State: Virginia
- Category: Human Trafficking|Sex Crimes
- Source: DOJ Press Release â†â€â€
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