As a 16-year-old, she befriended younger girls and pimped them out for sex

[Blue_Tires]

An 18-year-old Hanford woman was sentenced to 13 years in prison for her role in the pimping and human trafficking of younger girls. Hanford police detectives arrested Jelinajane Bedrijo Almario in May 2016. Though a juvenile, she was tried as an adult for human trafficking, sending threatening emails to a family member of at least one of the girls and making terrorist threats.

She was sentenced on Monday in Kings County Superior Court, two days after her 18th birthday. Almario’s scheme, which last a few weeks, involved posting pictures of the younger girls on different websites for prostitution, then taking the girls to motels off Highway 99 in Tulare County, said Hanford police Detective Richard Pontecorvo. Almario was the prime suspect, he said. The ring involved four girls between the ages of 14-and-15-years-old, Pontecorvo said.

“These girls would run away for weekends or work a couple of nights,” he said.

Almario found the girls through friends or acquaintances and social media.

“These people are great at locating kids with low self-esteem and trying to be their friend, and then it obviously changes once they started working for her,” said Pontecorvo.

http://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/crime/article159531089.html

That smile in her mugshot is almost Trumpian...

[GeorgeGist]

1. Hopefully, prison won't ruin her life.

[Gabi Hayes]

2. Trump/Epstein similarities abound

Google that

I started a thread about that monster, who escaped real justice, thx to crooked prosecutors

[WhiskeyGrinder]

3. Here's hoping everyone gets the help they need here.

[Cal Carpenter]

4. I want to share something here

I know a woman who is now in her late 30s. She was the victim of trafficking, brought into a pimp's world and pimped out as a teen. At the age of 19, she was convicted of trafficking for being part of his ring and helping groom younger girls. She spent several years in jail and is a registered sex offender for life. She'll never get a job aside from dishwashing or making sandwiches, and I don't know that she'll ever have truly healthy relationships with men.

She was a victim too, she just happened to have had one too many birthdays to be seen that way by the legal system. This world of pimping and human trafficking is an ugly world, a very real and widespread one, and one that most people know little about. It is easy to sensationalize and judge.

I don't know the details of this young woman's history, but it wouldn't surprise me if it is similar to the woman I know. If, by age 18 or 19, a girl has been abused and raped and under constant physical threat for years I don't see how justice includes punishing her.

I may be wrong - perhaps she is simply a psychopath, but that isn't really the point of what I'm trying to say here. I just really think that it is important recognize that in a lot of cases like this our justice system is not helping at all. It's similar to how the so-called war on drugs does nothing to curb problems of crime and addiction.

I imagine this young woman will get piled on in this thread (Trump/Epstein? really? I hope I misinterpreted that reference), and perhaps she deserves it, but I think it is important to look at the bigger picture here, too.

[Blue_Tires]

5. Oh, no doubt her parents need some heavy scrutiny

I don't know what kind of 16-year-old can regularly disappear for whole weekends and decent parents not call the National Guard...