Houston rapper Yung Corleon has officially been sentenced to 27 years behind bars after pleading guilty to child sex trafficking.
According to a Fox 26 report on Tuesday (February 14), Corleon (real name Aryion Jackson) kept 12 girls and women in a house in Houston and forced them to earn $1,000 a day in sex work – using drugs, threats and/or beating them to get them to comply.
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One of the victims, 15-year-old Kristen Galvan, went missing in January 2020 and still has not been located. Corleon denies knowing her whereabouts but his father told reporters: “As far as my knowledge is, he doesn’t know where she is but if he did, and he told me, ‘I definitely would tell that family, I definitely would.'”
According to the prosecutor, Corleon smuggled in drugs and cell phones and continued trafficking women while incarcerated.
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Yung Corleon reportedly cried in court as he apologized to the victims, and told the judge he “never had a fair chance in life.” He asked for leniency because of his childhood, which his father later admitted was troubling.
“Yes, I did three terms in and out of prison,” his father Steven said. “I myself was a product of the crack era. I got influenced early and had him young. It’s very emotional because I don’t visit jails because I’ve been there too many times.”
According to the judge, Corleon’s mother was a prostitute who was addicted to drugs – and she’s also being charged with sex trafficking. Her trial began on Wednesday (February 15).
R. Kelly recently received a similar sentence for sex trafficking crimes in June. The disgraced R&B singer was sentenced to 30 years in prison by U.S. District Judge Ann Donnelly after being convicted on nine counts of various racketeering and sex trafficking charges during the September 2021 trial.
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Eleven accusers (nine women and two men) gave their testimony of being victims of Kelly’s abuse and some were even minors when they first had intercourse with the “I Believe I Can Fly” singer.
Federal prosecutors in the Eastern District of New York reportedly asked the judge to sentence the embattled singer to 25 years in prison before Donnelly sentenced Kelly to 30.
