OAKLAND PARK, Fla., Dec. 21 (UPI) -- A 34-year-old South Florida man has been convicted of recruiting underage girls to provide lap dances and have sex with customers at a brothel.
A jury found James Mozie guilty Tuesday of eight counts of child sex trafficking, one count of conspiring to commit child sex trafficking and one count of producing child pornography by taking cellphone photographs of an underage girl, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reported.
Mozie, who ran the Oakland Park brothel named the Boom Boom Room in a house in an industrial area, was convicted of all 10 federal charges against him and faces a possible sentence of life in prison on each when he is sentenced Feb. 28.
Witnesses testified Mozie, accompanied by his wife, lured girls on the street by promising he could get them modeling and dancing jobs.
At the house, he tried to persuade them to undergo "orientation" -- by filling out an application saying which sex acts they would perform and then having sex with him.
He was convicted of recruiting eight girls, ages 13 to 17, to provide lap dances and have sex with customers. Not all the girls agreed to have sex with him and his customers, but jurors found he was guilty under the law because of his attempts to persuade them to be involved in the sex industry.
