The defendant was convicted after trial of procuring (s. 286.3), advertising sexual services (s. 286.4), common assault (s. 266), and assault causing bodily harm (s. 267(b)).
He was acquitted of human trafficking and related offences.
The victim was a 20-year-old woman with no prior prostitution experience who worked as an escort for one night in September 2015 after being pressured and manipulated by the defendant, her boyfriend.
The defendant arranged clients, set rates, collected all earnings, and later assaulted the victim on two separate occasions in December 2015 and January 2016.
The court applied the Tang factors framework for pimping offences and found the defendant's conduct to be at the lower end of the scale due to its brief duration, lack of force, and limited scope.
The defendant was sentenced to 19 months incarceration (14 months for procuring, 6 months concurrent for advertising, 2 months consecutive for common assault, and 3 months consecutive for assault causing bodily harm), followed by 12 months probation with conditions including no contact with the victim and a 250-metre exclusion zone.
