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Indiscreet pimp gets 24 years for sex trafficking teen runaways

Craig Johnson, 'Geez,' waits in a motel lobby in a picture posted to Facebook. He was sentenced to 24 years in federal prison on Nov. 13, 2013 for sex trafficking two teenage girls.
Craig Johnson, 'Geez,' waits in a motel lobby in a picture posted to Facebook. He was sentenced to 24 years in federal prison on Nov. 13, 2013 for sex trafficking two teenage girls.Read moreFACEBOOK

Craig "Geez" Johnson had no scruples when it came to drumming up business.

On his Facebook page last year, the convicted pimp boasted about his activities and touted his women.

A female friend reprimanded him. "This is not somethin u put on facebook… and show there(sic) faces, too," she said

Johnson shot back, "You know what i do, they my girls they work for me i can put anybody i want uphere(sic) its call advertisement."

Several months later, he recruited several young runaways and placed ads featuring them on the website Backpage.com.

Today, Johnson was sentenced to 24 years in prison for the sex trafficking of minors.

Johnson hired the girls, then aged 15 and 16, in June 2012. The internet ads attracted the attention of numerous adult men who had sex with them at the Days Inn on the Roosevelt Boulevard in Philadelphia, according to court papers.

While the girls entertained the johns in the motel rooms, Johnson waited in the lobby where he took pictures of himself to post onto Facebook.

Johnson was nabbed in a Bensalem sting in June 2012.

He pled guilty in Bucks County in May 2013 in promoting the prostitution of two other runaways, sexual exploitation of children, indecent assault of a person under 16, and numerous additional prostitution counts.

According to the Bucks County Courier Times, one of the teens said that in the course of 10 days she had sex with 50 men.

Federal prosecutors in Philadelphia deplored the depravity of Johnson's crimes.

"The defendant was directly involved in the sex trafficking of minors, resulting in their bodies being sold as chattel to countless strangers when they were in the ninth grade," said Assistant U.S. Attorney Michelle L. Morgan in sentencing documents.

"The impact of this crime on the victims is likely irrevocable. According to one victim, 'I feel as though there is a layer of dirt which can never be removed from my skin. I feel less of a young lady and often ashamed because of the acts I have performed.' Another victim described her shame saying, '(I am) always wondering if any peers know my secret.'"

Johnson, who was sentenced to a minimum of 16 years in Bucks Co. also faces charges in Philadelphia for the statutory sex assault of one of the girls.

In addition to the prison term, U.S. District Judge C. Darnell Jones, II, ordered Johnson to pay $10,400 -- the estimated cost of psychotherapy - to two of the victims and serve 10 years of supervised release.