Annette Nakatsukasa Basa is appealing her 17.5-year prison term for sex trafficking of children to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. <\/p>\n
Attorney Steven Pixley, court-appointed counsel for the 36-year-old Basa, filed yesterday a notice of appeal in the U.S. District Court for the NMI.<\/p>\n
Pixley said Basa will appeal to the Ninth Circuit the court\u2019s Dec. 5, 2014 judgment and will seek to reverse the 17.5-year prison sentence the court slapped against her.<\/p>\n
The notice of appeal contained no other details.<\/p>\n
At the Dec. 5 sentencing, U.S. District Court for the NMI Chief Judge Ramona V. Manglona ordered that after serving the 17.5 years in prison, Basa will be placed on five years of supervised release.<\/p>\n
Manglona also ordered Basa, among other things, to undergo a mental health assessment and complete any treatment while in federal prison custody.<\/p>\n
In Basa\u2019s sentencing memorandum, Pixley claimed that the defendant was sexually abused by some police officers when she was young and that the abuse left her with a variety of psychological problems.<\/p>\n
Last February, Basa pleaded guilty to a count of sex trafficking of children.<\/p>\n
According to the plea deal, Basa recruited, enticed, and harbored a 15-year-old girl to engage in commercial sex acts from April 1, 2013, to July 16, 2013.<\/p>\n
Using a cell phone, Basa arranged meetings with adult men and the girl, and then drove the girl to meeting sites for the purpose of having her have sex with those men.<\/p>\n
Basa gave the girl condoms for those meetings. In exchange, Basa received money or methamphetamine or \u201cice\u201d from the men.<\/p>\n
The indictment charged Basa and former firefighter Richard S. Benavente of engaging in sexual exploitation and sex trafficking of two minors.<\/p>\n
Benavente has already pleaded guilty. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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