Show-Me State Times

A Missouri man has been sentenced to more than 12 years in prison for transporting a minor across state lines for prostitution, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Missouri.

JoeMarius Green, 25, received a sentence of 152 months in federal prison and will be on supervised release for life after his release. Green pleaded guilty in January to one felony count of transporting a minor across state lines to engage in prostitution. According to court documents, he took the minor from Dallas to Kansas City on February 12, 2023, during the Super Bowl for commercial sex acts. He later brought the victim and others to a hotel in the St. Louis area for similar activities.

Prosecutors said Green managed online ads promoting prostitution, rented hotel rooms, set prices for sex acts, and collected all cash proceeds from the victim’s commercial sex acts.

Green’s co-defendant, Chantel Robinson, 21, was sentenced in July to 41 months in prison after pleading guilty to one felony count of possession of child pornography. Robinson admitted participating in commercial sex acts and taking sexually explicit photos of minors that were used in online advertisements. She also oversaw prostitution activities involving minors when Green was not present.

The case was investigated by the St. Louis County Police Department and the FBI. Assistant U.S. Attorney Dianna Edwards prosecuted the case.

"This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice," according to information provided by federal officials. "Led by U.S. Attorneys’ Offices and the Department of Justice Criminal Division's Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state and local resources to better locate, apprehend and prosecute individuals who exploit children via the Internet, as well as to identify and rescue victims." More details about Project Safe Childhood can be found at www.justice.gov/psc.