CHELSEA WOMAN SENTENCED FOR
CHILD PROSTITUTION SCHEME

BOSTON, MA - A Chelsea woman was sentenced today in federal court for conspiring to engage in a child prostitution scheme, Alice S. Fisher, Assistant Attorney General of the Department of Justice’s Criminal Division; United States Attorney Michael J. Sullivan; Warren T. Bamford, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in New England; Edward Davis, Commissioner of the Boston Police Department; and Colonel Mark Delaney, Superintendent of the Massachusetts State Police, announced today.

EVELYN DIAZ, age 22, of 92 Park Street, Chelsea, Massachusetts, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Patti B. Saris to 9 years imprisonment, to be followed by 3 years supervised release. DIAZ pleaded guilty on January 22, 2007, to an indictment charging her with one count of conspiracy to engage in a child prostitution scheme, two counts of transportation of a minor to engage in prostitution, and three counts of sex trafficking of children.

The facts alleged in the indictment and discussed during court proceedings showed that between approximately July of 2003 and May of 2005, DIAZ operated a prostitution business. DIAZ placed advertisements and pictures of girls who were working for her, both adults and juveniles, in various print media and websites, including her own: www.daddyslilgirlsxxx.com. DIAZ received calls for sex acts which were then performed by various girls, adults and juveniles, who were working for her. DIAZ primarily operated the business out of her home in Chelsea, and later at 66 Falcon Street in East Boston. In addition, DIAZ at times traveled to other states for the purpose of having her girls engage in commercial sex. When in Boston, DIAZ’s business would arrange for commercial sex both as “in calls” that is, sex acts performed at DIAZ’s place of business in designated rooms, and for “out calls” for which the girls would be transported to an outside location such as the caller’s home or a hotel. DIAZ would keep all or part of the money obtained by the girls for the sex acts they performed. At various times from 2003 through 2005, three minors worked for DIAZ, performing sex acts for a fee and delivering the money to DIAZ. In July of 2003, DIAZ transported Minor A and Minor B, ages 15 and 13 respectively, to New York City and stayed at a hotel paid for by DIAZ. While in New York, the minors engaged in prostitution that had been arranged by DIAZ through her business. DIAZ supplied condoms and received the money paid by the callers.

A charge of conspiracy to engage in a child prostitution scheme is still pending against DIAZ’s co-defendant, VICTOR DIAZ, age 23, of East Boston, Massachusetts.

This case is part of the Innocence Lost Initiative, a cooperative effort to prevent and prosecute child prostitution among the FBI, the Criminal Division’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

The case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Boston Police Department and the Massachusetts State Police. It is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Dana Gershengorn in Sullivan’s Major Crimes Unit, and Wendy Waldron, Trial Attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section.