convicted Victor Diaz, 24, of East Boston of conspiring to engage in

Convicted Victor Diaz, 24, of East Boston of conspiring to engage in
a child prostitution scheme, Alice S. Fisher, Assistant Attorney General of
the Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Michael J. Sullivan for the
District of Massachusetts announced today
Diaz was convicted this morning on one count of conspiracy to engage in
sex trafficking of a minor after a weeklong jury trial before U.S. District
Judge Patti B. Saris. Diaz was charged with conspiring with his niece,
Evelyn Diaz, to entice and transport a minor for a commercial sex act
between April of 2004 and April of 2005. At trial the Government
established that between approximately July of 2003 and May of 2005, Evelyn
Diaz operated an escort service that advertised in multiple publications
and on the Internet and sent individuals, including minors, on prostitution
calls in and around Boston. Victor Diaz assisted in the operation by
driving adults and a minor, to whom he and Evelyn Diaz are related, to
prostitution calls Victor Diaz faces a maximum sentence of 5 years in federal prison and a $250,000 fine. Evelyn Diaz pleaded guilty in January 2007 to two counts of
transporting a minor to engage in prostitution and three counts of sex
trafficking of children, in addition to the conspiracy charge, and was
sentenced to nine years in federal prison on April 27, The case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Dana
Gershengorn and Trial Attorney Wendy Waldron of the Child Exploitation and
Obscenity Section in the Department's Criminal Division. The case was
investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Boston Police
Department, the Cambridge Police Department and the Massachusetts State
Police.