Detroit Father, Son Sentenced On Sex Trafficking Charges

DETROIT — A Detroit father and son were sentenced to federal prison Friday after pleading guilty to charges of conspiracy to engage in sex trafficking using force and coercion, as well as firearm and controlled substance offenses, United States Attorney Dawn N. Ison announced.

Eligah Goodmon, 68, was sentenced to 111 months in federal prison by United States District Judge Laurie Michelson, while Goodmon's son, Erskin Bernard Perryman, 49, was sentenced to 180 months in prison, according to an FBI news release.

"These defendants treated their victims like a commodity," Ison said. "They targeted vulnerable women and exploited them for their own profit and fueled their drug addictions by providing them with drugs. We hope that today’s sentence offers these victims a sense of justice and closure and sends the message that we will not tolerate sex trafficking in our communities."

Court documents showed that Goodmon and Perryman ran a drug and prostitution house on Hazelwood in Detroit, where Goodmon lived with several woman who were addicted to drugs, the news release said.

Perryman went to the house every day to provide crack cocaine and heroin to the drug-addicted women, and forced them to buy the drugs by performing commercial sex dates, the news release said.

If the women in the home did not comply with Perryman’s demands, he was violent with them, the news release said.

Goodmon collected the money from the commercial sex dates, also provided the women with drugs and monitored their drug usage, the news release said.