Judge sentences NE Philly pimp to 30 years
Enoch Smith was convicted of producing child porn and sex trafficking a minor.
ACCORDING to a prosecutor, former Northeast Philly pimp Enoch Smith treated his teenage victim "as a piece of meat."
He met her a few years ago when she was 16, brought her to live in his rented Mayfair house, which he used as a brothel, took sexually explicit photos of her, and eventually introduced her to a daily life of prostitution and got her addicted to crack cocaine, Assistant U.S. Attorney Michelle Morgan said yesterday.
Morgan asked U.S. District Judge Joel Slomsky to sentence Smith, 37, to life in prison.
The judge, noting Smith already faces a long prison term from Bucks County, sentenced him to 30 years behind bars, the minimum of his advisory guideline range, to be served at the same time as his other sentence.
The judge also ordered 20 years of supervised release and $190,400 in victim restitution.
Smith was convicted by a federal jury last year of one count each of producing child porn and sex trafficking a minor.
The teen was among several females who lived at Smith's house, on Princeton Avenue near Erdrick Street in Mayfair, where they met their "clients" for "dates." The females were advertised on Backpage.com.
In June 2011, police conducted a prostitution sting and executed a search warrant at the house. The floor was "so littered with hypodermic needles," Morgan said.
At that time, the teen was no longer living there. A laptop computer found in the house had two naked photos of her, taken when she was 17, which led to a 2012 federal indictment against Smith.
Smith was arrested after the sting and charged by the state with promoting prostitution and promotion of controlled substances, for which he still faces trial.
While out on bail after his 2011 arrest, Smith "was undeterred," Morgan said. He moved his prostitution business to the Neshaminy Inn in Bensalem. In Bucks County, he raped a different victim.
Last year, he was sentenced in Bucks County to a little more than 40 to 80 years in prison for rape, promoting prostitution and drug possession.