OAKLAND — A girl who allegedly earned $500,000 as a prostitute for a Sacramento man testified that it was removed from his solely moneymaking enterprise.
Renford Evans, 41, catered for 2 nightclubs, labored as a prepare dinner for a well known Sacramento rooster restaurant, and owned his personal enterprise within the meals service trade, a girl recognized in courtroom solely as “Jane Doe” testified in courtroom. However she added that after they parted methods, the restaurant “kingdom” Evans had constructed for himself “crumbled” with out her.
“He came to own a food truck. He came to run two kitchens from two nightclubs to cook in,” she stated at Evans’ March preliminary listening to. “But once I left all that crumbled…He lost both kitchens. He lost the food truck.”
Evans was charged in February with human trafficking, pimping, assault with a firearm, assault more likely to produce nice bodily harm, brandishing a weapon in public, gun possession and prison threats. At his preliminary listening to, the prison threats cost was dismissed however the the rest of the case was upheld, and is now headed for trial or another decision.
The following courtroom date has been set for mid-September. Within the meantime, Evans — who was convicted a decade in the past of statutory rape and lewd acts with a minor in a intercourse trafficking case — is being held with out bail.
Evans was arrested after allegedly assaulting the lady at an Oakland lodge. She testified the incident was the ultimate straw for her, after beatings, backhand slaps, an incident the place he threatened her with a gun. She stated that she labored for him as an “escort,” and police stated on the time of his arrest she estimated making $500,000 for him.
She testified he inspired her to make use of condoms and go to well being clinics every week to check for STDs, and that she’d flip over the cash to him. It began in late 2023 till Evans was arrested, she testified.
On cross-examination, Evans’ lawyer requested what she bought out of it.
“Nothing but a broken heart and a hurt face,” Doe responded. When requested to elucidate the “broken heart” half, she testified that regardless of the abuse, shedding Evans from her life was an emotional course of. These days, she stated, she is attending college and “getting myself together.”
“Once you get intertwined with someone like that it’s like having a very close friend,” Doe testified. “You don’t love them, like, romantically. You love them as if they were like a close family member.”
Initially Printed: August 4, 2025 at 3:56 PM PDT
