Hyde Park Man Pleads Guilty to Pimping Charges in Danvers, Saugus

DANVERS, MA — A Hyde Park man will spend the next five to seven years in a state prison after admitting to kidnapping, trafficking, and prostitution charges.

Marquis Campbell 24, of Hyde Park, pleaded guilty on Monday in Essex Superior Court to trafficking of a person for sexual servitude, kidnapping, and deriving support from prostitution, according to the state's Attorney General's office. He will have an additional four years of probation following his prison sentence.

Charges where brought against Campbell and 34-year-old Steven Diaz of Everett following a traffic stop in May 2014. During the stop, a woman in the backseat asked the state trooper for help. The two were indicted the next month.

In June, Diaz was found guilty by an Essex County jury and sentenced to five to eight years in a state prison.

An investigation revealed that Campbell and Diaz picked up a woman days before the arrest and coerced her into providing sexual services for a fee in hotels in several Massachusetts communities, namely Saugus and Danvers, over a three-day period.

Campbell and Diaz took photos of the woman and subsequently used them to post advertisements offering sexual services on websites known to advertise prostitution. They transported the victim to hotels and to outcalls, coerced her to engage in sexual acts with multiple men, monitored the money being earned, and ultimately collected all of the proceeds.

Information in this article was provided by the Attorney General's office.

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