A 15-year-od allegedly pimped out by her mom during Super Bowl week got condoms and a price list, and was sent on a “date” by her mother, prosecutors said at the bad parent’s trial on Wednesday.
Yolanda Ostoloza, 39, brought her young daughter from Florida to New York City for the “sole purpose of making money,” attempting to cash in on the big game in the New York area earlier this year, prosecutor Rachel Ehrhardt argued in her opening statement.
But when Ostoloza sent her daughter off for what was expected to be a tryst, she pretended to care for her kid’s well-being, the ADA argued.
“What makes this so heinous . . . is the motherly advice this defendant gave her daughter right before she walked out that door: Be careful. Use protection,” Ehrhardt said.
Ostoloza’s attorney, Lawrence LaBrew, argued at the bench trial that his client had discussions about working for a pimp but that she planned to send the teen to the child’s father’s house in New Jersey.
The accused pimp, Damon Hayes, was also charged in connection with the events and his case is pending.
Police testified that the nervous teen alerted them to the sick scheme when they took her into custody on Jan. 29.
The girl “explained that she was here with her mother, that her mother was at another hotel, and that downstairs there was a man by the name of ‘D’ waiting for her,” NYPD Detective Frank Batista testified Wednesday.
She then called Hayes in front of him and gave him a tall tale about what had happened in the hotel room. Her excuse was met with a threat, Batista said.
He “kept saying you better go back in there and get me my f----g money. You know what’s going to happen.”
Ostoloza faces up to 15 years in prison on the top count of promoting prostitution.
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