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Acting Queens Supreme Court Justice Peter Vallone, Jr. set sentencing for April 8.
By Forum Staff
A Springfield Gardens man and his female partner have been indicted twice for pimping out young women as far back as February 2013, Chief Assistant District Attorney John Ryan announced on Friday on behalf of Queens DA Richard Brown.
The victims were threatened, physically abused, and coerced into trading sex for cash, Ryan said.
Terrance (a.k.a. “Staxx”) Jackman, 37, pleaded guilty on Thursday to two counts of sex trafficking in satisfaction of both indictments. Zulay (a.k.a. “Mocca”) Guerrero, 36, of St. Albans, also pleaded guilty on Thursday to fourth-degree conspiracy and third-degree promoting prostitution.
Sentencing is scheduled for April 8; Jackman faces to up to 12 years in prison and Guerrero faces up to four years’ incarceration.
According to court records, the two female victims – then ages 15 and 23 – were forced to trade sex for cash in Queens and elsewhere by both Jackman and Guerrero at various times between Feb. 1, 2013, and March 1, 2017, and to turn over all of the money they made to Jackman. On one occasion, while parked in a vehicle sometime between May 1, 2016, and October 1, 2016, Jackman stabbed the then-21-year-old victim in the knee with a knife. The wound left a scar and despite needing medical attention, the young woman was forced to engage in prostitution that night.
Continuing, according to the charges, in the second case, Jackman met the 20-year-old victim at a nightclub on June 25, 2017, and offered to give her a ride home. Instead of driving her to her residence, however, Jackman took her to an address in Queens and informed her that she was going to work for him as a prostitute. Jackson and Guerrero both took pictures of the victim and posted them on the now-defunct backpage.com to advertise the woman as a prostitute.
On June 30, 2017, the victim was driven to a location to have sex with a stranger for money; while there, she informed the prospective customer that she had been kidnapped. The man let her escape. The victim immediately called 911 and stated that she had been kidnapped by a pimp.
“In pleading guilty, the two defendants have now admitted to trafficking young women and forcing them into a degrading and demeaning sex industry. The victims were coerced into having sex with strangers on multiple occasions and were required to turn over all the money they made. Both victims were threatened by Jackman and one young lady was actually stabbed in the knee and without any medical treatment forced to still prostitute herself that night,” Ryan added. “This kind of brutality will not be tolerated in Queens County. Now that the victims are free from this terror, hopefully the young ladies can put this experience behind them and can go forward with their lives. As punishment for their crimes, the defendants will go to prison.”
