Defendant Convicted After Jury Trial
Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark announced that a Manhattan man has been sentenced to 18 years in prison and five years post-release supervision for Sex Trafficking of a Child and additional charges for forcing a 14-year-old girl into prostitution.
District Attorney Clark said, “This defendant was a brutal pimp who degraded a 14-yearold girl. He beat and threatened her to engage in sex with men and then led her to another pimp who forced her to have numerous “dates” in a Bronx motel that served as a brothel. The girl bravely testified at trial. This conviction and sentence show our commitment to victims of sex trafficking. We will continue our tireless work to hold perpetrators accountable and support vulnerable victims.”
District Attorney Clark said the defendant Akeem Lee, 36, of Manhattan was sentenced today to 18 years in prison and five years post-release supervision by Bronx Supreme Court Justice Laurence Busching. He is required to register as a sex offender upon release. A jury convicted the defendant on July 2, 2025, of two counts of Sex Trafficking of a Child, two counts of first-degree Promoting Prostitution, Sex Trafficking, second-degree Intimidating a Witness, third-degree Intimidating a Witness, and Endangering the Welfare of a Child.
According to the facts presented at trial, Lee met a 14-year-old girl inside a Bronx subway station, and she began engaging in prostitution for him. Lee hit and choked her and threatened to kill her if she went to the police. The defendant introduced the teen to a network of pimps who operated and trafficked her out of the 7 Days Hotel at 2338 Bruckner Boulevard. The sex trafficking enterprise operated from June 2019 to November of 2022.
The victim began taking up to 22 dates daily and was given ecstasy and cocaine to stay awake all night and was repeatedly beaten to comply with demands. By 2021, the now 16-yearold victim went on approximately 100 dates. In January 2021, an undercover investigation began at the hotel. Lee was among three pimps and three 7 Days Hotel staffers charged in 2023.
Co-defendants Anthony Reyes, 33, pleaded to fifth-degree Conspiracy, Robert Olaguibel, 48, Golam Rabbani 30, and Patrick Walker 53, hotel employees, pleaded guilty to fourth-degree Criminal Facilitation. All were sentenced to three years probation. Marvin Flint, 34, pleaded guilty fourth-degree Conspiracy and was sentenced to nine years in prison.
District Attorney Clark thanked NYPD Detective Denis Regimbal and NYPD Detective Mark Shackel of the NYPD Human Trafficking Team for their work on the investigation.
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