Lonnel Moore, 37, Oakland was convicted in September of human trafficking of a minor with force, pimping of a minor, inducing a minor to commit a lewd and lascivious act and committing a lewd act on a minor for incidents between June 25 and Aug. Oakland police said the victim told officers who located her at Bancroft and 90th avenues in the early morning hours of Aug.
Police alleged that Moore used drugs and abusive language against the year-old girl to subjugate her to the life of pimping and sex trafficking.
The victim met Moore in Stockton in late June and a few days later she began working as a prostitute under his control along the International Boulevard corridor in Oakland, according to a probable cause statement by Oakland police Officer Kathryn Raymundo. The victim tried to escape from Moore on three occasions but in each case he found her and beat her, Raymundo said. But the girl finally was able to escape after the final time that he beat her, according to Raymundo.
In that incident he put a pillow over her face and smothered her but finally released the pressure, Raymundo wrote. The girl called her mother after she escaped and her mother in turn called police, who then located and helped her, Raymundo said. Moore, who was supported by about a dozen family members and friends at his sentencing hearing on Friday, has nine prior felony convictions dating back to He has five convictions for possession of cocaine base for sale and two convictions each for evading an officer and being an ex-felon in possession of a firearm.
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