Man Who Transported Minor to Super Bowl, St. Louis for Prostitution Sentenced to 152 Months in Prison

ST. LOUIS - U.S. District Judge Stephen R. Clark on Friday sentenced a Missouri man to 152 months in prison for transporting a minor across state lines for sex.

JoeMarius Green, 25, will be on supervised release for life after his release from prison. Green pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in St. Louis in January to one felony count of transporting a minor across state lines to engage in prostitution. He admitted taking the minor from Dallas to Kansas City on Feb. 12, 2023, to engage in prostitution during the Super Bowl. After about four days, Green brought the victim and others to a St. Louis area hotel for the same reason. Green managed the online prostitution ads, rented hotel rooms, set price points for sex acts and took 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 engaging in commercial sex acts, taking sexually explicit and sexually suggestive photos of minors and posting online ads. She also oversaw the prostitution activities of minors when Green was away.

The St. Louis County Police Department and the FBI investigated the case. 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. 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. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit https://www.justice.gov/psc.