Man Gets 17 Years For Using MySpace To Lure, Pimp 17-Year-Old:

Again I don’t know how I missed this story when it first broke. I guess it wasn’t important enough to have received any media attention at the time.

Anyway, 29-year-old Dwayne Lawson was sentenced to 17 1/2 years for pimping out two underage girls in Orange County, California.

He lured a 17-year-old girl to the O.C. over MySpace by promising to make her a star. He had the girl bussed out from Florida to California. I’m going to guess that he used the modeling scam. He also drove another underage girl from Miami to California to work the streets for him.

“The young people in this case were victimized and exploited in a horrific way,” said the U.S. Attorney in L.A. André Birotte Jr. “This sentence demonstrates that sex traffickers and pimps will suffer severe consequences for their reprehensible conduct.”

Not severe enough if you ask me. And again to the girls who think someone on MySpace can make them a star guess again. Real talent or modeling agents do not use MySpace. Not to mention the odds of someone actually making it as an actress or model is about the same as winning the lottery.