A Moreno Valley man has been sentenced to 262 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to sex trafficking two underage girls, ages 13 and 16, whom prosecutors say he forced to work as commercial sex workers on South Los Angeles's notorious Figueroa corridor before driving them to a Las Vegas motel. Christian Brandon O'Neal Scurlock has been in federal custody since his August 2024 arrest, and federal prosecutors announced the sentence as the culmination of a case built on a plea agreement detailing months of exploitation.
Scurlock recruited the two girls and, per the plea agreement, directed them to engage in commercial sex acts throughout Los Angeles County, according to KTLA. One of the girls was just 13 years old when Scurlock recruited her, and she had run away from a group home and was living without stable housing at the time, according to mynewsla.com. Per the plea agreement, Scurlock had sex with the 13-year-old on one occasion, the outlet reported.
Prosecutors say Scurlock knew the Figueroa corridor was frequented by commercial sex workers and their customers, and he drove the girls to areas where they could find buyers. He told them how much to charge and collected and controlled the money they earned, prosecutors said, while also controlling the victims' finances, housing, transportation and food. He supplied them with marijuana and alcohol, bought them clothes to wear while soliciting customers, and gave both victims smartphones so he could stay in contact with them, according to the same account.
From South L.A. to a Las Vegas Motel
In April 2024, prosecutors say Scurlock transported both victims from Los Angeles County to a motel in Las Vegas, where the girls engaged in commercial sex work. Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department officers found and arrested Scurlock after locating both girls inside his vehicle. Officers also found $985 in cash and condoms in the car, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.
Scurlock had brought the girls to Las Vegas from Los Angeles to provide prostitution services, mynewsla.com reported, citing prosecutors. He was arrested on Aug. 7, 2024, and ordered jailed without bond, the outlet noted — the same arrest that put him in the federal custody he has remained in since. He pleaded guilty in July 2025 to a single federal count of sex trafficking of a minor.
Sentence, Restitution and a Lifetime of Supervision
Scurlock was sentenced to 262 months — nearly 22 years — in federal prison and will serve supervised release for life once he is out. He was also ordered to pay $159,246 in restitution, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office. Sources have listed Scurlock's age inconsistently: mynewsla.com identified him as 22 at the time of his guilty plea, while a Justice Department listing described him as 23; KTLA's reporting on the sentencing also referred to him as 23.
A Corridor Long Targeted by Task Forces
The Figueroa corridor where the girls were forced to work is a roughly 3.5-mile stretch of Figueroa Street between Gage Avenue and Imperial Highway in South Los Angeles, an area that has drawn sustained law enforcement attention. In September 2024, federal, county and city officials in Los Angeles announced the Figueroa Human Trafficking Initiative, according to ourweekly.com. Since the year before that announcement, a multi-jurisdictional task force had already been focused on the corridor as what one report called the epicenter of the region's human trafficking, working to locate victims, arrest traffickers and disrupt buyers, per KFI AM 640.
That enforcement push has also targeted demand. The Los Angeles City Attorney's Office issued more than 200 citations to suspected sex buyers during 2024, according to Patch. Scurlock's case stands as one of the outcomes of that broader crackdown on trafficking along the corridor, with federal prosecutors framing his prison term as accountability for exploiting two children who had nowhere else to turn.
