OAKLAND — Three years after he was charged with trafficking two girls and a woman around California, a Fairfield resident has accepted a plea deal and an eight-year prison term, records show.
Sidney King, 35, pleaded no contest to two human trafficking counts in exchange for the eight-year prison term. The deal also requires him to register as a sex offender for life and contains a 10-year court order to stay away from the victims, according to court records.
King’s charges date back to an incident in Oakland in 2020, during a sting operation on a section of International Boulevard known as “The Blade,” a slang term for a high-prostitution area. Police arrested a 26-year-old woman on suspicion of prostitution and detained a 15-year-old girl, who identified her pimp as “SK,” according to court records.
The girl was later picked up in Sacramento and gave a more detailed interview there, police said. Alameda County prosecutors identified King as her pimp and found two more victim, and charged him in 2021, records show.
The 26-year-old woman was charged in a separate case, but prosecutors recently dismissed it, records show. Her attorney argued that she was a victim of human trafficking as well.
During King’s 2022 preliminary hearing, two of the victims testified. The girl said she met King when she was 15 and he brought her to street corners in Oakland, Vallejo, and other places for purposes of prostitution. The woman testified that she met King when she was 18 and that when she would try to resist sex work, he’d push the issue.
“I don’t know how to describe it. I would say I was hungry or cold, and he told me to ‘suck it up’ and ‘do what you gotta do,’” the woman said on the stand.
King entered his no contest plea on Aug. 7 and is still awaiting formal sentencing, records show.
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