A Midway City man faces up to 26 years in prison when sentenced later this month for paying four underage teen girls to have sex with him and taking pictures of them to use for his own child pornography, a prosecutor said Thursday.
Daryl Anthony Hicks, 57, was convicted Wednesday of three counts of human trafficking of a minor, four counts of statutory rape, a count of possession of a firearm by a felon, three counts of furnishing a controlled substance to a minor, all felonies, and a misdemeanor count of possession of a controlled substance.
Hicks would have been eligible for a fourth conviction of human trafficking of a minor if he hadn’t failed to pay one of the teens as he said he would, according to Deputy District Attorney Bryan Clavecilla.
The victims were 16 to 17 years old, and the defendant gave them drugs such as methamphetamine and cocaine, Clavecilla said. The unlawful sex happened at various times between February and July of last year, the prosecutor said.
Three of the girls complained to sheriff’s deputies in July of last year, Clavecilla said.
When Hicks was arrested investigators recovered three guns and cocaine in his apartment, Clavecilla said.
Hicks was scheduled to be sentenced Oct. 30.
— Wire reports