The defendant Juan Rico Doss and his wife Jacquay Quinn Ford, conspired to, and transported two female children, ages 14 and 16, from Nevada to California to work as prostitutes in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Oakland, and Sacramento.
Doss recruited and transported the 16-year-old victim by the use of force, and received money in exchange for allowing men to have sex with the two girls. He also told the girls to lie about their age. In his first trial, the youngest minor female victim, C.F., and Ford, refused to testify against Doss. Doss was then charged with witness tampering in addition to the sex trafficking crimes.
1st Instance:
Doss was indicted in 2005, along with his wife, Jacquay Ford, for numerous counts of sex trafficking of children, and transportation of minors into prostitution.
A mistrial resulted when the jury was unable to reach a verdict. A grand jury then issued a superseding indictment against Doss, adding three charges of witness tampering which involved C.F., Doss’s wife, and a fellow prisoner, Mark Cohn.
The second jury convicted Doss on all counts except for tampering with witness Mark Cohn.
The convictions would be the second time that Doss had been convicted for sex crimes against minors. Due to his previous conviction, he received the life sentence.
The defendant pleaded guilty in exchange for reduced punishment.
United States District Court for the Central District of California
Doss was one of the first defendants in the United States to receive a mandatory life sentence pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3559(e), which calls for mandatory life imprisonment for repeated sex offenses against children.