People v. Stogden CA6

I. FACTS AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND3

A. The Victims Growing up in an abusive household, O.D.4 began running away from home when she was 12 or 13 years old. In order to eat and have a roof over her head, O.D. started to earn money as a prostitute while she was still a minor. For the next several years, she would run away, engage in commercial sex work to survive, be returned to her parents’ home and then begin the cycle again. When O.D. was seventeen, she met Stogden through a mutual friend. At that time, she was supporting herself by working as a prostitute. O.D. moved in with Stogden and their mutual friend for about a week, but she left due to her growing belief that Stogden had a drug problem and a temper. Stogden, however, found O.D. on the streets, forced her into his car, and drove her back to his apartment. Stogden convinced O.D. to stay, and shortly thereafter, Stogden began serving as O.D.’s pimp. For the next five years, Stogden was both O.D.’s pimp and cohabitant, and controlled her money. He became angry if she tried to keep any of the money she earned and even threatened to cut her hand off. Stogden set quotas for the money O.D. had to make each day and established…