Manhattan U.S. Attorney Geoffrey S. Berman said: Grevy Gerard Pierre-Louis spent almost 20 years engaged in depraved and extraordinarily violent sex trafficking of minor girls and adult women. As a result, he will now spend the next 30 years in prison. Our hope is that the brave survivors of the defendants heinous crimes will find a measure of justice in todays sentence.
Chief Judge Colleen McMahon called todays sentence just punishment for the ruination of all of those lives.
According to the Indictment, Superseding Information, publicly-filed documents, and statements made in court:
Starting in 1998 and continuing through 2016, PIERRE-LOUIS compelled his victims to engage in prostitution through extreme violence, psychological and verbal abuse, coercion, and threats of violence to them and their family members. PIERRE-LOUIS victimized at least nine girls and women in numerous states, all for his own profit.
PIERRE-LOUIS employed a variety of criminal methods to compel his victims to engage in prostitution. He used physical violence, sexual assault, threats of physical violence, threats of deportation, emotional and psychological abuse, and threats against family members. For example, in addition to severe beatings and rapes, at various points he had his victims branded with tattoos; he hung one victim out a window; and he caused victims to kneel on dry rice so as to inflict severe pain. The defendant kept all of the proceeds of his victims trafficking.
In addition to the prison term, PIERRE-LOUIS, 47, of Queens, New York, was sentenced to 10 years of supervised release and ordered to pay restitution to his victims.
Mr. Berman praised the outstanding investigative work of the FBI. Mr. Berman also thanked the New York City Police Department, the U.S. Attorneys Office for the Southern District of Florida, the Miami Field Office of the FBI, the United States Secret Service, the City of Miami Police Department, the Miami Beach Police Department, and the Miramar Police Department for their cooperation throughout the investigation.
The prosecution is being handled by the Offices Violent and Organized Crime Unit. Assistant U.S. Attorneys Amanda Kramer and Jessica K. Fender are in charge of the prosecution.
-- Southern District of New York
Source: U.S. Secret Service