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Pimp gets 26 years in human trafficking case involving missing Lancaster toddler

by City News Service • February 4, 2016

Brandon Michael Wynn [top right] was convicted of pimping and attempting to murder the mother of an 18-month-old girl [top left]. After an Amber Alert was issued, the child was found strapped into a car seat inside a shed in Palmdale. (Images by LUIS MEZA)
Brandon Michael Wynn [top right] was convicted of pimping and attempting to murder the mother of an 18-month-old girl [top left]. After an Amber Alert was issued, the child was found strapped into a car seat inside a shed in Palmdale. (Images by LUIS MEZA)
LANCASTER — A Lancaster man who pimped two women, including the mother of a kidnapped toddler who was strapped into a car seat and left in a shed in Palmdale, was sentenced Thursday to 26 years in prison.

Brandon Michael Wynn, 34, pleaded no contest last month to two counts each of human trafficking and pimping involving the tot’s mother and another woman, and four counts, including attempted murder and assault by means likely to produce great bodily injury, involving the girl’s mother.

Other charges, including kidnapping and child abuse counts involving the toddler, were dismissed as a result of his plea.

Wynn’s co-defendant, Regina Renee Estorga, 45, pleaded no contest to one count each of kidnapping involving the girl’s mother and assault with a deadly weapon. Estorga — who was not charged with the child’s abduction — was sentenced to six years in prison.

On July 16, 2015, Wynn assaulted one of the women he had forced into prostitution, according to Deputy District Attorney Dennis Vincent.

Two days later, Wynn and Estorga took the woman to a remote area in the desert, where they beat her, doused her with bleach and left her naked and tied up, the prosecutor said.

The woman was subsequently found in the Lake Los Angeles area.

After an Amber Alert was issued for the woman’s 18-month-old daughter, Wynn took the girl to a shed in Palmdale and left her there, according to the prosecutor.

Following an extensive search, Wynn was eventually spotted July 18 in a car. He told sheriff’s deputies the toddler was nearby in the shed, and two Los Angeles County sheriff’s sergeants and a deputy found the child, authorities said.

The girl was suffering from heat exposure and dehydration and was still strapped into a car seat, according to the sheriff’s department.

Sheriff’s investigators said the child could have died had the weather in the Antelope Valley been more typical. An unseasonal rainstorm lessened the effects of the heat.

Previous related stories:

Man pleads no contest to attempted murder, human trafficking, pimping

Alleged pimp pleads not guilty to kidnapping toddler found in shed

Woman charged in human trafficking case

Human trafficking, kidnapping, attempted murder charges filed in Palmdale baby abduction

Detectives: Baby abducted by mother’s pimp

Kidnapped child found safe, suspects arrested

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2 comments for "Pimp gets 26 years in human trafficking case involving missing Lancaster toddler"

  1. Cruz says

    February 5, 2016 at 6:34 am

    I agree with you 100% Jim… Even with what he did to that woman, he put the woman’s child in harm… On July 18th when the amber alert came out for her baby, I prayed for God to protect her and to let her be found safe and sound. July 18th is the anniversary of my 18 day old daughters death, so when that baby’s amber alert came out, I was already hurting and upset over my own daughters death and begged God not to let that day be marked by another tragedy… That man is a pathetic waste of human life and animals like that deserve, to be locked away for the rest of their life… I hope in jail someone gives him what he deserves

  2. jim baker says

    February 4, 2016 at 10:50 pm

    Imagine your mom or sister ran into this guy, and he kidnapped them and forced them to have sex with men so HE could make money?!? Ya know, im a liberal, but I would be totally ok with this kind of crime getting the Death Penalty… I would sleep well at night…

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