BOSTON, Jan. 22 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A Chelsea woman pleaded
 guilty today in federal court to conspiring to engage in a child
 prostitution scheme, Assistant Attorney General Alice S. Fisher for the
 Criminal Division; United States Attorney Michael J. Sullivan for the
 District of Massachusetts; Sharon E. Ormsby, Acting Special Agent in Charge
 of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in New England; Edward Davis,
 Commissioner of the Boston Police Department; and Colonel Mark Delaney,
 Superintendent of the Massachusetts State Police, announced today.
     EVELYN DIAZ, age 22, of Chelsea, pleaded guilty before U.S. District
 Judge Patti B. Saris to an indictment charging her with one count of
 conspiracy to engage in a child prostitution scheme, two counts of
 transportation of a minor to engage in prostitution, and three counts of
 sex trafficking of children. DIAZ was arrested on Friday, July 7, 2006.
     As part of the plea agreement, DIAZ admitted that between approximately
 July 2003 and May 2005, she operated an escort service that advertised in
 multiple publications and websites, and sent individuals -- including
 minors - - on prostitution calls in and around Boston. DIAZ primarily
 operated the business out of her home in Chelsea. In addition, DIAZ at
 times traveled to other states for the purpose of having individuals --
 including minors -- engage in commercial sex. DIAZ kept all or part of the
 money obtained for the sex acts performed.
     DIAZ also admitted that in July of 2003, she transported Minor A and
 Minor B, ages 15 and 13 respectively, to New York City to engage in
 prostitution. DIAZ arranged this meeting through her business, paid for the
 hotel, supplied condoms and received the money paid by the callers.
     Judge Saris scheduled sentencing for April 27, 2007. DIAZ faces a
 maximum sentence of five years in prison on the conspiracy charge; a
 mandatory minimum sentence of five years up to a maximum of 30 years in
 prison on the transportation of a minor charges; a 40 year maximum sentence
 on two of the sex trafficking of children charges; and a maximum life
 sentence on the third sex trafficking charge.
     A charge of conspiracy to engage in a child prostitution scheme is
 still pending against DIAZ's co-defendant, Victor Diaz, 23, of East Boston,
 Mass.
     The case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the
 Boston Police Department and the Massachusetts State Police. It is being
 prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Dana Gershengorn in Sullivan's Major
 Crimes Unit, and Wendy Waldron, Trial Attorney for the U.S. Department of
 Justice's Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section.
     This case is part of the Innocence Lost Initiative, a cooperative
 effort to prevent and prosecute child prostitution between the FBI, the
 Criminal Division's Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section and the
 National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
 
 

SOURCE U.S. Attorney