BEAUMONT, Texas — A Southeast Texas woman will spend 10 years behind bars for sex trafficking two minors.
Dylliaunna Mialiyah Lacey pleaded guilty December 2022 before Judge Raquel West in the 252nd District Court.
She faced up to 10 years in prison as part of a plea deal.
Lacey controlled ads from a known prostitution website that had provocative photos of the minors, according to a probable cause affidavit.
The ads that were discovered by law enforcement, offered sexual services in exchange for money.
Lacey's defense attorney Wendell Radford told Judge West his client is young and the state only knew about her role because she confessed.
Radford asked the judge to consider a five-year sentence rather than the full 10 years allowed by the plea agreement.
The prosecutor said the cap of 10 years is appropriate and was agreed upon after they took into her confession in consideration.
Judge West noted that Lacey had 79 writeups while in custody due to disciplinary issues while in jail.
“That 10-year cap is a gift,” Judge West said.
On June 4, 2020, officers with the Beaumont Police Department were dispatched to The Executive Inn in reference to a welfare check of a 16-year-old girl that was possibly being held against her will.
Officers received information that the woman was seen near room #4214 at the southwest end of the building.
The minor was located once officers entered the room.
Officers then contacted detectives and once detectives were on the scene, the investigation continued.
Through investigative leads an unknown female, later determined to be Lacey, was discovered to be linked to the trafficking of the two minors.
Lacey was brought into to the Beaumont Police Department where she admitted her involvement regarding trafficking a minor child to detectives, according to the probable cause affidavit.
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