Boston man convicted of sex trafficking girls at Seekonk motels gets up to 80 years in prison

“He met these two young girls and taught them the adult sex trade,” Judge Raffi Yessayan said shortly before handing down two consecutive 30- to 40-year prison terms for Footman.

“He was basically using her as his own sex slave,” Yessayan said.

He was convicted in 1986 of raping two girls with another man and leaving the victims on the side of the road before driving off. In 1998, after his release on a host of other crimes, Footman was convicted of prostituting girls and served a 13-year federal prison term.

In July 2015, he was sentenced to 85 years for sex trafficking in minors in Rhode Island. The case that exposed prostitution at the now-closed Cheaters strip club, but his conviction on most of the counts was overturned.

After he completed his Rhode Island sentence, Seekonk police arrested him in December 2018 for sex trafficking the girls at several Seekonk motels and advertising them on the now defunct website backpage.com, according prosecutors and court records.

Prosecutors said if the girls did not make $1,000 a night at the strip club, where patrons engaged in sex acts in back rooms with young girls as Footman acted as their pimp, he would force them to have sex with men when they returned to Seekonk.

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