Sentenced Rapper’s Lawyer Says Client a Drug Dealer, Not a Pimp

Anthony “Mack” Terry of Shoreline, convicted of pimping a teenage girl at the Warwick Hotel in Seattle, was sentenced to 20 years in prison on Thursday by King County Superior Court judge Beth Andrus, reports the Seattle PI. Terry will appeal the conviction.

Terry, a rapper who described himself as “a pimp in action” on his MySpace page, was among the first defendants to be sentenced under stiffer penalties for commerical sexual exploitation of children recently enacted by the state Legislature.

during a sting conducted by detectives with the Seattle Police Department’s high-risk victims unit. Police charged under new legislation that allows harsher punishments for pimps and people who pay for sex with minors. Selling sex with minors is now considered a Class A felony, lumped in with first-degree rape, assault and kidnapping.

During the sting, Terry was found to be pimping a girl, 17, who he met at the Shoreline apartment complex where he lived, said police. The girl, now 18, told the judge that she was not a victim and Terry was never her pimp.

Terry's defense lawyer argued that his client was a drug dealer, not a pimp

Terry decided not to speak in his defense on Thursday.