New York Daily News

3 held in pimp ring

- Rocco Parascando­la

THREE PEOPLE have now been charged in a sex-slave ring operating from a Brooklyn apartment, authoritie­s said Tuesday.

Detectives also determined that four kids found in the Crown Heights brothel/apartment when the first two arrests were made in July were living their with their sexslave mothers. The investigat­ion began July 15, when a 16-year-old runaway escaped from the Crown Heights apartment on Lincoln Place, went home and told cops she’d been forced into prostituti­on.

Cops arrested Denina Roman, 21, and Taymel Harris, 20, at the apartment. On Aug. 9, Roman’s boyfriend, Antwan Green, 27, was arrested. The three were indicted on charges of kidnapping, promoting prostituti­on, sex traffickin­g, unlawful imprisonme­nt and endangerin­g the welfare of a child.

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