HOUSTON – Prosecutors have sentenced a pimp accused of trafficking a teenage girl along the Bissonnet track to more than 30 years in prison.
According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of Texas, 21-year-old Antonio Dario Osoria-Avelar, also known as “Pressure” pleaded guilty to the charges on April 2023. Court records explained how a 16-year-old victim of Osoria-Avelar’s came forward before the court and detailed how he destroyed her familial relationships.
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Osoria-Avelar’s defense attorneys tried to push the narrative of how he was immature, but Judge George Hanks and prosecutors claimed “he still knew what he was doing and manipulated people.”
“Osoria-Avelar claimed immaturity caused him to force a 16-year-old to walk the Blade, a notorious area known for prostitution. There is a difference between immaturity and evil, and Osoria-Avelar is evil,” Alamdar Hamdani said in a statement. “Those like Osoria-Avelar who take what they want by means of force or intimidation will never acquiesce to societal norms. Judge Hanks’ over 30-year sentence protects society’s most vulnerable from predators like Osario-Avelar.”
The teenage girl Osoria-Avelar trafficked was recruited out of Dallas and brought, along with another woman, to Houston in January 2023. Prosecutors say he’d have the 16-year-old working the streets of Bissonnet also known as “the Blade” and “the track” in freezing temperatures. Throughout that time, court documents claimed Osoria-Avelar supplied the teenage girl with drugs and condoms, and directed when she ate, slept, and worked.
Prosecutors also claim Osoria-Avelar set a daily quote for her while coercing her into walking the track and when he wasn’t doing that, he was having “violent sex” with her himself, filming it and selling them to others “knowing she was just 16.”
A judge sentenced Osoria-Avelar to 375 months in federal prison and will also have to serve 15 years on supervised release after his term. During that time, he will have restricted access to children and the internet, and be ordered to register as a sex offender.