A woman who took a plea deal to avoid felony human trafficking charges after being caught with two men who allegedly pimped out four women in a South San Francisco motel was sentenced to one year in jail Friday.
Maria Carolina Jimenez, a 27-year-old San Francisco resident, pleaded no contest to one count of witness dissuasion last December and, despite facing up to three years in prison, was sentenced to just one year in county jail and three years probation, according to the District Attorney’s Office.
Jimenez was charged for allegedly helping Andrew Jordan, 25, and Sate Jones, 28, prostitute the four women, including one underage girl, at the La Quinta Inn during February 2013.
According to prosecutors, Jones dropped off two women one night and two women the following between Feb. 15 and Feb. 16. Two of the women told police they were destitute and that Jones and Jordon had found them several days earlier in Sacramento before prostituting them at motels in San Francisco and South San Francisco.
The women said the couple took all over their money, gave them illegal drugs to keep them working all night and sometimes deprived them of food. At police direction, the women called Jones to be picked up.
He arrived with Jimenez and the two were arrested.
Jordon remained at large for 11 months before being arrested and pleaded no contest to felony pimping and false imprisonment by force or fear. On April 3, Jordon was sentenced to eight years in prison.
Jones is scheduled for a jury trial June 22.
Jimenez, who had been out on $350,000 bail, has 169 days of credit toward her sentence and must turn herself in to finish the remainder starting June 27, said District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe.
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