Mom Sentenced For Prostituting Daughters
POSTED: Wednesday, November 10, 2004
UPDATED: 7:31 am EST November 11,
2004
A 34-year-old woman convicted of prostituting her two teenage daughters was sentenced to three years in state prison Wednesday, according to WKMG-TV in Orlando.
Authorities said Carrie Espergen sold her daughters for sex to help pay family bills, according to the report.She pleaded no contest Sept. 28 to felony charges of procuring a minor for prostitution and child abuse and was sentenced on the charges Wednesday, said Linda Pruitt, a spokeswoman for the State Attorney's Office.Espergen will spend three years behind bars and another six years on probation for the crime.Sheriff's investigators said the woman used threats of violence and the loss of things the girls liked to force them to have sex with men for money.The girls told investigators they were taken to homes in DeLand and Crescent City to have sex with men, workers in the area's floral fern industry, for $50 to $65 for each session.The woman's daughters are in Department of Children and Families custody.Espergen is not allowed to contact her daughters, according to the report.
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