Man sentenced for making teen a sex slave in Charlotte, Miami. They met on Facebook
A Charlotte man was sentenced to 19 1/2 years in prison on Thursday for turning a North Carolina teen runaway into a sex slave in Charlotte and Miami after meeting her on Facebook, prosecutors said.
A federal judge in Miami sentenced Willie Dishon Matthew Obadiah, 32, after he pleaded guilty to sex trafficking a minor, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida.
The teen thought the man was taking her on a road trip to Miami, “where she would just smoke and walk on the beach,” according to an April 16 criminal complaint filed by an FBI agent in Miami, The Charlotte Observer previously reported.
Instead, Obadiah forced her into prostitution at Charlotte and Miami hotels, the agent said.
The victim told Obadiah she was 18, although she was 17, according to the complaint. Obadiah told her she was now “part of his family,” the agent said in the complaint.
After forcing the teen into prostitution at a Charlotte hotel, court records show, Obadiah left for Miami with the victim on March 1, according to the complaint.
The victim was forced to use cocaine along the way, take opioid pills in the Miami area and become a prostitute there, too, prosecutors said.