

Their accounts convey “a sense of the violent, degrading and abusive manner in which the defendant treated these women and the methods he used to keep them in line,” Adelman said.Īvery’s most trusted prostitutes would “program” the new ones, teaching them Avery’s rules, Adelman said. In imposing the sentence, Adelman cited the statements of several women, two of whom were 14 when they started prostituting for Avery. District Judge Lynn Adelman followed the recommendation of prosecutors.Īvery’s attorneys, Donna Kuchler and Anthony Cotton, had recommended that he serve 10 years. He pleaded guilty in November to two felonies: conspiracy to sex traffic by use of force and sex trafficking of a child by use of force, fraud and coercion. Derrick Avery, who gained fame in movies and on television as “Pimp Snooky,” was sentenced to 20 years in prison Friday in federal court in Milwaukee.Īvery, 45, prostituted scores of women and girls in cities from Milwaukee to Las Vegas for at least 16 years, according to federal prosecutors.
