Austell Man Sentenced in Sex Trafficking of Girl

A 30-year-old Austell man was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge J. Owen Forrester for transporting a 16-year-old girl across state lines from her South Carolina home and repeatedly forcing her to perform sexual acts for money. For several hours a day and six days a week  at various hotels and a truck stop from July 2009 to October 2009, the girl was forced to perform sexual acts with strangers recruited from websites.

Chesire Martinez Robinson, also known as “Candyman,” was sentenced to 17 years and five months in federal prison, to be followed by five years of supervised release. Robinson was also ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $14,440, and ordered to register as a sex offender. He was convicted of the charges on Sept. 14, after a three-day jury trial.

Robinson posted photographs of the victim in escort and erotic services sections of various websites to recruit men who would have sex with the girl and pay money to do so. He made $14,000 from the girl’s eight-week period of forced prostitution.

Special Agent Brian D. Lamkin of the FBI Atlanta Field Office stated in a release, “In an effort to combat the many facets of human trafficking, to include those who traffic minor children within the sex trade industry, the FBI's focus is on the victim as well as those who are primarily exploiting them.  This defendant repeatedly exploited a minor child by serving as the minor child's ‘pimp’ within the commercial sex trade industry and displayed a disregard for this child and for the law in the name of greed.  The FBI urges anyone with information regarding human trafficking matters, to include the commercial sexual exploitation of children to contact their nearest FBI Field Office.”

The FBI’s Metro Atlanta Child Exploitation Task Force, with substantial assistance from the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office, investigated this case.