A New York state corrections department employee and her ex-con boyfriend were indicted Tuesday for running a sex trafficking and prostitution ring where they pimped out at least one child, prosecutors said.
Deanna DiCastro, 39, and Gillam Cordero, 38, are both accused of managing the sex ring out of four locations across the state — Manhattan, the Bronx, Rome and Utica — between October 2025 and January 2026, according to the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office.
The alleged pimps, who have been dating for four years, arranged prostitution hookups at hotels in Manhattan and the Bronx, the DA’s office said.
When they trekked upstate, they used the Rome home of DiCastro — a state Department of Correction and Community Supervison worker — as the meeting place, prosecutors said.
The pair pimped out at least one underage girl and dispatched various men to her hotel room at some point during the three-month operation, according to prosecutors.
They also instructed the young girl to take certain amounts of money from the purported clients, the office claimed.
DiCastro and Cordero allegedly started advertising for the illicit service in early October through listings on MegaPersonals, a website for “classified hookups.”
In November, Cordero also allegedly robbed someone at gunpoint at DiCastro’s direction — tracking them down and threatening to shoot them if they didn’t fork over their belongings, the DA’s office said.
DiCastro has a firearm license and 10 pistols registered in her name, the DA’s office said. But Cordero, as a convicted felon, is not legally permitted to own or purchase a firearm.
Cordero previously served time for a gunpoint robbery where he and two other members of the Mac Ballers gang forced a victim to strip naked before making off with their possessions, AMNY reported.
He only just secured parole in September, according to the outlet.
The lovers were both charged with sex trafficking of a child, first-degree robbery and third-degree prostitution promotion.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg Jr., said the investigation remains ongoing and urged anyone with information to report their findings to his office’s human trafficking unit.
