An MS-13 gang member who raped and prostituted teenage girls, forcing them to have sex with up to 10 customers a day, has been sentenced to 50 years in prison.

U.S. District Judge Anthony Trenga ordered 24-year-old Rances Ulices Amaya to spend 50 years behind bars for recruiting teens from middle schools, high schools and homeless shelters in Northern Virginia into his sex-trafficking operation. A jury in Alexandria federal court convicted him of conspiracy and child sex-trafficking charges in February.

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