A man and a woman are accused of sex trafficking a 19-year-old woman in hotels throughout South Florida, deputies say. They were both arrested Wednesday.
Madcene Serfrere, 31, and Tresha Pierre-Louis, who is in her mid-20s, are facing charges of human trafficking while coercing commercial sexual activity, the use of a two-way communication device to facilitate a felony and renting a space for prostitution. Serfrere is also charged with living off the earnings of prostitution.
Deputies with the Palm Beach County Human Trafficking Task Force had responded to the 2500 block of Summit Boulevard in West Palm Beach on Tuesday as part of “an ongoing human trafficking investigation,” where they arrested Serfrere and Pierre-Louis, the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release. The two were booked into Palm Beach County Jail early Wednesday morning.
Investigators said that Serfrere and Pierre-Louis coerced the woman into having sex for money in multiple hotels across Palm Beach County as well as hotels in Broward and Miami, according to the release. Serfrere, who lived with the victim, “used physical violence” and threatened to evict her if she refused, the release said. He and Pierre-Louis then took the woman’s earnings for themselves.
Both Serfere and Pierre-Louis are being held in Palm Beach County Jail without bond.
Pierre-Louis’ exact age was not immediately available Thursday. According to court records, she was born in 2001.
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