NEW WESTMINSTER - A Crown attorney says prosecutors want a 13-year prison sentence for Jennifer Stephens, a B.C. woman who pleaded guilty to 17 criminal charges related to sex trafficking of a minor, and several counts of assault.

Prosecutor Catherine Rose read out an agreed statement of facts at a sentencing hearing in a New Westminster court, outlining the woman’s violent, drug-fuelled abuse of sex workers, including a 13-year-old girl.