A mother-son pair was arrested and charged with conspiracy to commit intercourse trafficking of kids for allegedly abducting and pimping out two 13-year-old women final summer time, federal prosecutors mentioned in court docket papers.
Reuben Gilliam and Daisy Pollard-Gilliam have been arrested final month for his or her involvement within the kidnapping of the 2 teenagers, who have been lacking for six days in June after they disappeared on the road in Bell Gardens, prosecutors mentioned.
The ladies, referred to solely as Sufferer 1 and Sufferer 2 in court docket papers, have been snatched on the road by Gilliam and two different males who approached them in a automobile round 2:00 a.m. on June 3, prosecutors alleged.
One of many males hopped out of the automobile and instructed the women to get in or else one other man within the automobile would drive them into the automobile, mentioned an FBI agent in an affidavit filed within the case.
The ladies obtained within the automobile and have been taken to a residence on Flower Road in Lynwood that the federal agent mentioned belonged to Pollard-Gilliam. Pollard-Gilliam rented the house out on Airbnb, the agent mentioned.
Over the course of the subsequent week, the women have been pimped out to males who paid $100 for intercourse, based on the affidavit. Gilliam additionally had sexual relations with the underage teenagers, prosecutors mentioned.
One of many women instructed investigators she was drugged with capsules that made her weak and dizzy and that she was chained to a chest of drawers when she was not being compelled to have intercourse.
Gilliam and Pollard-Gilliam dressed the women in lingerie and compelled them to pose for photos to promote them for business intercourse, based on the affidavit.
On June 8, the women have been allegedly taken to a residence in Sunland that they referred to as “the mansion within the hills.”
The subsequent day, the proprietor of the home got here in and ordered the women to go away, the affidavit mentioned. The person later instructed brokers that somebody had damaged into his residence and the women didn’t have permission to be there.
The ladies used a telephone that their abductors had given them to name Pollard-Gilliam, who obtained them to an RV in Gardena, based on the affidavit.
That very same day, the women have been rescued from the RV by Los Angeles Sheriff’s Division deputies, the agent mentioned. The affidavit doesn’t say how the women have been saved or what led the sheriff’s division deputies to the RV.
Investigators turned conscious in January that Pollard-Gilliam was additionally sharing nude photographs and movies of the women with inmates at Kern Valley State Jail, the affidavit mentioned.
Gilliam had been promoting the women for intercourse on Instagram earlier than they escaped and instructed one person who he was going to place movies of them on OnlyFans and PornHub, two porn web sites, based on the affidavit.
Pollard-Gilliam was arrested April 24 and Gilliam was arrested April 27.
