SAN FRANCISCO — A man who prosecutors say made $9,000 trafficking a teen girl around California and Arizona has been sentenced to seven years in prison.
Jordan Haywood, indicted in April along with one co-defendant, also will be placed on supervised release for five years after serving his sentence. Haywood pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit sex trafficking as part of the plea deal.
The case against Haywood’s co-defendant, Chantel Williams, is still active.
In a short sentencing memorandum, federal prosecutors wrote that Williams and Haywood trafficked the girl for a month, starting in July 2017. While traveling with her through California and Arizona, they went through her belongings and found an ID card that confirmed she was a minor, but continued to traffic her, prosecutors said.
“They posted advertisements on the internet using the ‘Backpage’ website to market the victim’s acts of prostitution,” assistant U.S. Attorney Edward Cheng wrote in court records. “They instructed the victim on how to perform the acts of prostitution, and they took her to hotels and the private residences of the clients in these locations.”
When it was over, they dropped the girl off in East Palo Alto, prosecutors said.
Haywood’s attorney, Geoffrey Hansen, wrote that his client had accepted responsibility.
“Mr. Haywood has a relatively minor criminal history, but made a huge mistake here and he knows it,” Hansen wrote. “He will have to now serve an eight-year (sic) sentence for that mistake, which is a huge punishment for a person who has not been to prison before.”
