Pierce Co. prosecutors: man pimped out two teenage girls
TACOMA, Wash. -- A Pierce County man accused of pimping out a pair of teenage girls was charged Friday with two counts of commercial sex abuse of a minor.
Prosecutors say 29-year-old Alfred Anthony Clark met a 16-year old girl last August and offered to take care of her and "buy her nice things" if she agreed to prostitute herself and give him the money.
Clark is accused of placing escort ads on Backpage.com and then taking the girl to hotels and other "prostitution areas" for dates," prosecutors say.
On Jan. 23, Lakewood Police detectives with the FBI Innocence Lost Task Force responded to an ad on Backpage.com for a "two-girl special."
An undercover officer set up a date at a Lakewood motel, and when he arrived he agreed to pay $210 each for sex with the 16-year old and another 17-year-old girl.
Uniformed officers then swooped in and detained both girls. They also arrested Clark, who was waiting for the girls in the motel parking lot, according to prosecutors.
The girls later told officers they had agreed to give Clark 60 percent of the money they made as prostitutes.
Clark was arraigned Thursday and is being held at Pierce County Jail on $100,000 bail.
Prosecutors say 29-year-old Alfred Anthony Clark met a 16-year old girl last August and offered to take care of her and "buy her nice things" if she agreed to prostitute herself and give him the money.
Clark is accused of placing escort ads on Backpage.com and then taking the girl to hotels and other "prostitution areas" for dates," prosecutors say.
On Jan. 23, Lakewood Police detectives with the FBI Innocence Lost Task Force responded to an ad on Backpage.com for a "two-girl special."
An undercover officer set up a date at a Lakewood motel, and when he arrived he agreed to pay $210 each for sex with the 16-year old and another 17-year-old girl.
Uniformed officers then swooped in and detained both girls. They also arrested Clark, who was waiting for the girls in the motel parking lot, according to prosecutors.
The girls later told officers they had agreed to give Clark 60 percent of the money they made as prostitutes.
Clark was arraigned Thursday and is being held at Pierce County Jail on $100,000 bail.
If after the trial, if convicted, it would be a community service if KOMO would post pictures
of this man so other young girls might not be caught in his schemes. He is an adult, so
there is no excuse not to post an alert of this sort.
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Giving away 60% of your income!? WTH?! If you have to sell the the rocket locker at least keep the money for it. Poor choices, girls, poor choices. But in all seriousness, Clark needs to be in jail and the parents of these girls and the girls themselves have some explaining to do.
Very sad to hear at 16 and 17 the way to live your life is that of a prostitute. What a lowlife Clark is, glad he was caught.
Again - these girls knew full well what they were doing - so how about arresting and charging them with prostitution!
Hope he has fun being raped in prison.