A 21-year-old man has been convicted in Jefferson County for roughly two weeks in 2014, prosecutors say.
Cravaughn Lacrae Maloy was found guilty of four counts in the case, including pimping a child, patronizing a prostituted child, keeping a place of child prostitution and inducement of child prostitution. All of the charges are Class 3 felonies.
Maloy was arrested and charged in the case by the Jefferson County District Attorney’s Office human trafficking unit. A woman, 22-year-old Alicia Sykes, was taken into custody as a co-defendant.
“Maloy met the runaway teen victim near a liquor store on West Colfax in Lakewood in June 2014,” prosecutors said in a Wednesday news release. “He took her to the apartment he shared with Sykes and gave her a place to sleep. Maloy told her that she would have to prostitute for him to be able to stay with him.”
Authorities say Sykes took photos of the teen in lingerie and then posted them to websites used to solicit men to have sex with the teen. Maloy and Sykes took calls from customers who responded to the ads.
The pair would then arrange locations and a price for men to engage in sex with the teen, the earnings of which would be given to Maloy.
, the girl told authorities she had run away from a group home in Colorado before she was prostituted. Five men with patronizing the teen.
Sykes pleaded guilty earlier to pimping an contributing to the delinquency of a minor. The district attorney’s office despite their request for jail.
Maloy is scheduled to be sentenced on Nov. 21.
