HIALEAH, Fla. – A 17-year-old boy is facing charges after pimping a 14-year-old runaway in Hialeah, police said.
Christopher Velazquez was arrested Tuesday on charges of human trafficking and procuring prostitution of a minor.
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According to an arrest report, the victim was acquainted with Velazquez, and asked him where she could stay after she ran away from home on March 28.
Police said he told her she could stay at the home of Jeffrey Goering-Puig, 28, and Sarah Yates, 30, but that she could not stay there for free.
The victim told police that Yates told her that she was a prostitute and a pimp and that the victim would also have to work as a prostitute to earn her keep.
Police said messages from Velazquez's cellphone through the KIK app show that he solicited the victim to have sex with Orlando Otero, 22, in exchange for money that he owed him.
He then solicited her to Otero again for either "$100 or a blunt."
Velazquez, Goering-Puig, Yates and Otero all face charges in the case.
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