Man sentenced to 60 years for child prostitution

By Rhonda Cook

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

A 33-year-old man was sentenced Friday to 60 years in prison after a DeKalb County jury convicted him 16 felonies, including nine counts of pimping two underage girls.

"I was not there when the crime happened," Erik Djon Ferguson said after he was convicted of sexual exploitation of children.

Ferguson forced the girls to hand out business cards for "addicted pleasure models" and to solicit men to pay them for sex. Allante Sieria Green, arrested with Ferguson and charged with eight counts of  sexual exploitation of a child, was sentenced to 12 months probation after pleading guilty in September to less serious crimes.