Child kidnapped and held as ‘sex slave,’ prosecutor says

HOLLYWOOD A man known as “Menace” is accused of kidnapping and battering a 13-year-old girl and recording pornographic videos of himself having sex with her, according to court documents.

The child had been taken into a Hollywood house last September by another man who told her, “You’re going to make me a lot of money,” according to police.

The girl was held in the home for eight days while several men had sex with her and paid money to her captors, police said.

The child was “kidnapped” and “held against her will, and for lack of a better term, [she] was held as a sex slave,” Assistant State Attorney Eric Linder said Monday during a Broward County court hearing. Quincy Lamar McCall, 42, of Miramar, was one of the men who went to the house and paid for a sexual encounter, the teen told police, an arrest report said. He went by the name of “Menace,” she told detectives.

The child isn’t being identified because of her age and the nature of the case.

On the afternoon of Sept. 19, she argued with her grandmother and went for a walk to calm down. She met some friends and then continued walking alone when she met a man who offered her water, police said.

As she waited outside his home, he grabbed her arm and pulled her inside. The man — who was not identified and whose Hollywood address was not described in a police report — locked the front door and left her in a bedroom where the visitors arrived to have with her, police said.

Two men, brothers called Junior and Doobie, and an older man and woman lived in the house. The girl said that each day, she was given a cigarette to smoke that was laced with a white powder that she believed was a narcotic, and also was given alcohol, police said.

On Sept. 22, the brothers took the girl to McCall, who was at a building on Taylor Street. She initially told police she did not recall much of what happened that day.

In a later interview with detectives, she told them she didn’t describe everything that happened with McCall because, even though he did not threaten her, she was afraid if he found out she spoke with investigators, he would come after her.

She said when the brothers walked with her to meet McCall, she was very high and drunk and not able to walk by herself, police said.

While she was on the second floor of the building, she told police McCall removed her clothing, tied her wrists and ankles to metal bars and sexually battered her over several hours, the report said.

The girl believed that a camera set up on a stand was sex recording the assaults, according to a police report.

At one point she told detectives she tried to struggle and scream, but said McCall covered her mouth with his hand and she thought she passed out, the report said.

The teen doesn’t remember how she ended up back in the house, but on Sept. 26, the front door was open and she ran out, the report said. Though she said the brothers chased her, the girl told police she ran to the first person she saw and asked for help.

Her grandmother called police that day; the child later identified McCall from photographs presented by detectives.

Hollywood Police arrested McCall on June 25. The state attorney’s office has charged him with three counts of lewd and lascivious battery on a victim between the ages of 12 and 16; kidnapping to facilitate the commission of a felony; battery and contributing to the delinquency or dependency of a minor.

During a June 26 court hearing, a judge ordered McCall held without bond on the kidnapping charge.

He has pleaded not guilty. Efforts to reach his current defense attorney were not successful.

Reached on Tuesday, lawyer Andrew Coffey said in an email that he represented McCall during the preliminary portion of the case.

“I can tell you that after reading hundreds of pages of statements and police reports, I believe the state’s evidence is severely lacking at this point in reference to this case,” Coffey said.

About 2:50 a.m. Monday, Davie police officers who were looking for speeders along South University Drive arrested Roody Guercy Joseph.

Joseph, 28, was a passenger in a Volkswagen Jetta that was suspected of traveling 74 mph in a 45 mph zone, a Davie police report said. Officers discovered a warrant for Joseph’s arrest and took him to jail.

Joseph is McCall’s co-defendant, according to Linder. A Hollywood police spokesman could not be reached for comment, and Joseph’s arrest report was not available Tuesday.

Joseph is facing a charge of lewd and lascivious battery on a child between the ages of 12 and 16. He is being held in county jail on a $250,000 bond.

During Monday’s court hearing, Linder told Judge Jackie Powell that Joseph should have known about the child’s plight.

Joseph repeatedly shook his head as if to say “No” while Linder described the allegations in the case.

Powell said if Joseph is released from custody before trial, she ordered that he wear a GPS monitor on his ankle and to not contact the child in the case or other minors.