A Halifax man who pushed a young woman back into prostitution, and admitted threatening to chop her up and serve her at a dinner party, has been sentenced to 16 months in jail. The young woman, who was 20 when she met Gray on Canada Day , contracted HIV while working for him, according to the agreed facts. She was a drug addict, and had already been a sex trade worker — she had previously been sold from one former pimp to another — when she met Gray through her then-boyfriend.
In the fall of , Gray found brochures that Halifax police vice officers had given her about getting out of the sex trade. He laughed at her and told her she was useless — and that if she came forward she would be dead. Then, in late October , she went to a hospital after missing a methadone dose. When she got out, she went to police. Gray pleaded guilty to advertising sexual services, receiving benefit from prostitution and human trafficking, and uttering threats.
He will also be on the sex offender registry for 20 years, and have a firearms prohibition of 10 years. More Weekly Flyers. Please see our Commenting Policy for more. Live Event. January 17, am. By Staff The Canadian Press. Get daily local headlines and alerts.
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