How a woman and a man will pay for trafficking two teen girls at a Palm Beach County motel

WEST PALM BEACH — A federal judge has sentenced a woman and a man who pleaded guilty in January to the sex trafficking of two teenage girls last year at a Lake Worth Beach motel to nine or more years in prison.

U.S. District Judge Robin L. Rosenberg imposed a sentence of 16 years and eight months for Maria Barrios Calero and nine years for Ricardo Tobon Flores during separate hearings on Tuesday, April 2, at the federal courthouse in West Palm Beach.

Rosenberg also ordered that Calero and Tobon each be placed on 15 years of probation at the end of their sentences. Neither of them spoke during their respective hearings.