A Baker man described by authorities as one of East Baton Rouge’s biggest sex traffickers was sentenced Monday to 25 years in prison for running a prostitution ring out of area motels.

Kevontae Kindel Reed was part of an operation that forced at least three underage girls to have sex with men for money. Prosecutors said he preyed on girls as young as 12, many who were troubled teens or runaways from the foster care system. He stashed the girls in seedy motel rooms where he forced them to “earn their right” to stay by having sex with random men for money, according to court records.

“Mr. Reed, making money off young children in these circumstances was just deplorable,” District Judge Fred Crifasi said moments before doling out Reed’s sentence. “They were marginalized. They didn’t have a

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