A Houston resident was sentenced to more than two decades for sex trafficking a seventh grade girl and then branding her body by having his initials tattooed on her.
A Houston resident was sentenced to more than two decades for sex trafficking a seventh grade girl and then branding her body by having his initials tattooed on her.
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East Texas pimp gets life sentence for trafficking Houston women, girls
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David Mearis, 44, of Houston.Texas DPS
An East Texas pimp who trafficked children and adults in an “eight-year reign of terror” in Houston was ordered Monday to serve a life sentence in federal prison.
David Wayne Mearis, 45, of Orange, was given five concurrent life terms to be followed by 25 years of supervised release if those sentences are ever set aside. U.S. District Judge Kenneth M. Hoyt also sentenced him to pay nearly $1 million in restitution to multiple victims.
The man an FBI official referred to as a “career pimp” was convicted in October 2019 by a federal jury of forcing several girls into prostitution and grooming teen victims for gigs that endured into their adult years. He threatened, abused and peddled his victims online and on the streets day and night including one who was developmentally disabled. He operated in north Houston and the infamous Bissonnet Tr