Man, 25, gets term for putting girl in prostitution
Sat., May 2, 2009
SEATTLE — A man who forced a 12-year-old girl into prostitution has been sentenced to 23 years in prison.
Twenty-five-year-old Steven L. Leonard was sentenced Friday in King County Superior Court.
He was convicted last month of child rape and promoting commercial sexual abuse of a minor.
The Seattle Times reports Leonard met the seventh-grader in January on a Seattle sidewalk and talked her into running away from home. The Times says Leonard’s criminal record includes convictions for theft, possession of stolen property and animal cruelty.
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