The head of a lucrative pan-Canadian pimping network that brought him hundreds of thousands of dollars was sentenced to 39 months in prison, even though no victim ever wanted to file a complaint.
“Young women could bring up to $1,500 a day to the organization. They gave him part or all of their earnings, ”explained Me Amélie Rivard of the Crown in the Verdieu Register Junior file, this Friday at the Montreal courthouse.
Register Junior, 33, had committed his crimes from 2016 to his arrest last year. For him, the commodification of women was only a “business” so that he had no qualms about using them to fill his pockets. Thus, he targeted young escorts and offered them to work for him.
“He acted as a boss and his accomplices referred to him for decision-making regarding the management of prostitution,” he explained to the court.
He was the one who chose the places where the escorts were to go to work, he set the rates, and to “optimize income”, he sometimes moved the young women to different cities across Canada, but also to the United States. .
A total of 26 women were involved in this network.
It’s rolling in gold Gold, if the escorts saw this as a “business relationship” and even though there is no evidence that Junior Register was violent with the victims, the fact remains that he was acting illegally.
And when the police launched an operation to crack down on those profiting from sexual exploitation, he quickly fell into the crosshairs of the authorities. A search of his parents’ home in Saint-Hubert also revealed a small jackpot.
Along with $230,600 in cash, officers also seized more than half a kilo of gold jewelry, worth $110,390.
And even though his parents were unaware of his affairs, the state began legal proceedings to seize their house which was used as a cache of money.
In the Dominican Republic
Wanted by police, however, Junior Registry had managed to flee the country. And even though he had settled in the Dominican Republic, that didn’t stop him from pursuing his business.
“He continued to manage the commercialization of the sexual services of certain sex workers in Quebec,” reads the summary of facts.
The pimp was however arrested at the request of the Canadian authorities. And a sign that the jails of this Caribbean country are far from resembling the resorts found for tourists, he did not oppose his extradition.
And rather than go to trial, Register Junior pleaded guilty to receiving material benefits from prostitution.
At the suggestion of the parties, he was sentenced to 39 months in prison, accompanied by a three-year probation during which he will not be able to find in places of commodification of the body of women, such as massage parlors for example.
He was also placed on the sex offender registry.