Victim Met Pimp on Dating App, Was Drugged, Beaten, Forced into Prostitution; Victim Forced to Get Pimp’s Name Tattooed on Her Face Defendants Include Six “Johns”
Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark today announced that nine men and a woman have been indicted on Sex Trafficking of a Child, Promoting Prostitution, Rape and other charges involving a teenage girl in the Bronx.
District Attorney Clark said, “The victim courageously testified in the grand jury to expose her alleged traffickers and rapists. She is receiving supportive services from our Crime Victims Assistance Bureau and has been able to move on to a better future. This young girl lived a nightmare of abuse and exploitation that began with a dating app. Please remember that there is help for victims of trafficking; we can get you out of it and protect you.”
District Attorney Clark said the defendants are variously charged in a 79-count indictment with, Sex Trafficking of a Child, Second-Degree Promoting Prostitution, Third-Degree Promoting Prostitution, Third-degree Rape, third-degree Criminal Sexual Act, Sexual Misconduct, Use of a Child in a Sexual Performance, Promoting a Sexual Performance by a Child, Endangering the Welfare of a Child. They were arraigned on prior dates before Bronx Supreme Court Justice Laurence Busching. Defendant Joshua Green had a bail hearing today, in which bail was set at $50,000 cash and $100,000 bond. The defendants are due back in court on October 14, 2025.
According to the investigation by the Bronx DA’s Human Trafficking Unit and the NYPD’s Human Trafficking Squad, in November 2022, defendant Tesean Green, 48, of the Bronx, met the 16-year-old girl on the dating app “Tagged.” Within weeks, the defendant allegedly began pimping her out, impersonating her on apps and arranging hundreds of “dates” in New York and Atlantic City, NJ between December 2022 and March 2024. He allegedly plied her with Ecstasy before the encounters and kept all of her earnings.
According to the investigation, Tesean Green fractured the victim’s jaw during a beating in a New Jersey hotel. He allegedly tracked the victim and the other girls’ whereabouts on the Life360 App.
The victim was allegedly forced to sell crack-cocaine to Johns by Joshua Green, of the Bronx, Tesean’s uncle, who also allegedly trafficked the girl.
In October 2023, defendants Jamel Cameron and Brianna Jamison, both of Queens allegedly pimped out the teen at the Holiday Motel at 2291 New England Thruway, Bronx, setting up dates through online commercial sex advertisements on the website MegaPersonals.com.
The other defendants are accused of paying to engage in sex with the victim, who was a minor.
District Attorney Clark thanked NYPD Detective Denis Regimbal from the Human Trafficking Squad for his work on the investigation.
We urge anyone who is, or who believes someone they know is, the victim of trafficking to call the Bronx District Attorney’s Office at 718- 838-6535, or the National Human Trafficking Hotline at 888-373-7888.
An indictment is an accusation and not proof of a defendant’s guilt.
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