A Jamaican has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison in Hartford, Connecticut for sexually trafficking a minor.
Romane St. Christopher McKenzie will also have to serve five years of supervised release for the conviction.
He faces immigration proceedings when he is released from prison.
According to the U.S. Justice Department, the 24-year-old was arrested in November 2014 after a Department of Children and Families case worker alerted Enfield Police that a 15-year-old girl was advertising prostitution on a website.
Police contacted the listed number and set up a fake meeting at a local hotel.
When they arrived the police found evidence of prostitution and that the room had been rented by McKenzie, who was also present at the hotel.
The investigation revealed the Jamaican was aware of the girl’s age, but paid for the prostitution advertisements on the website for her and other victims and trafficked her at motels in Enfield and Windsor Locks in Connecticut.
He also sold her crack cocaine.
The Jamaica pleaded guilty on August 2 to one count of sex trafficking of a minor.
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