People v. Robinson CA4/3

FACTS

At the tender age of 14, Jane Doe ran away from her Arizona home and started working as a stripper at a club in Scottsdale called “Skins.” Appellant worked in the area around the club as a prostitute. One day she approached Doe and told her she could make more money working as a prostitute than a stripper. Doe told appellant she was not interested. A couple of nights later, on February 22, 2013, appellant and her pimp Chuncey Garcia contacted Doe as she was leaving Skins. After speaking briefly with Garcia, Doe accompanied him and appellant to a nearby motel room. Doe thought Garcia was going to offer her a job answering phones, but that wasn’t the case. Instead, he told her he wanted her to become one of his prostitutes. He explained how she should handle customers and what to charge them. He also told her she was not allowed to tell anyone she worked for him. Although Doe did not want to become a prostitute, she went along with what Garcia was saying and joined his operation because she feared him. That night, appellant, who was known as Garcia’s “head bitch,” acquired a cell phone for Doe and posted her phone number on the internet. The next day, Doe began receiving…