DECATUR, Ga. (AP) - A Lithonia man convicted of selling two teenage girls for sex has been sentenced to life in prison.
DeKalb County District Attorney spokesman Marcus Garner says in a statement that 30-year-old Robert Tate of Lithonia was found guilty last week of rape, trafficking of persons for sexual servitude, pimping a person under the age of 18 and interference with custody charges.
In 2014, Tate and another man, Jamal King, met the 16-year-old girls who had run away from their Macon foster homes.
The suspects sold the girls for sex on a website and took them to hotels.
Authorities say Tate choked, abused and raped one of the girls when she was five months pregnant. She later escaped and told authorities.
King pleaded guilty to charges and was sentenced to 13 years in prison.
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