The victims’ ages ranged from 18 to 50, police reported last year. Rohnert Park police, who led the investigation into the Romesburgs, said the mother and son pimped about 150 women over the 10 years they were in operation. Together they managed all aspects of the victims’ sex work. The Romesburgs for 10 years operated a wide-reaching prostitution ring in the county involving dozens of adult women, prosecutors described in the release. She has already served half of her jail term awaiting trial. It can and does happen in this community.”įay Romesburg, 59, also pleaded no contest to one felony account of criminal pandering last year, prosecutors said. “The problem of sex trafficking is not exclusive to (the) third world and large urban settings. “It is fitting that today’s sentence was handed down during Human Trafficking Awareness Month,” District Attorney Jill Ravitch said in a statement Thursday. He also admitted to having been previously convicted of statutory rape in 1999, a strike offense under the state’s three-strikes law. David Romesburg pleaded no contest in August to felony charges of pimping, pandering and money laundering and received the maximum sentence under an agreement reached with prosecutors, according to the press release. Superior Court Judge Brad DeMeo required the son to register as a sex offender for life. A mother and son convicted of running a prostitution ring that authorities said operated brothels in Rohnert Park and Santa Rosa faced a judge Thursday to receive their punishment.ĭavid Romesburg, 38, was sentenced to 16 years in state prison and his mother, Fay Romesburg, was sentenced to ?12 months in jail and placed on probation for three years, according to a press release by the District Attorney’s Office.
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