Alabama man sentenced to 30 years for trying to kidnap, sell teen into sex trade

An Alabama man who pleaded guilty to trying to sell a teen to a Tennessee sex trafficker for $8,000 and kidnap her mother was sentenced to 30 years in prison, the U.S. Attorney's Office announced Thursday.

David Boersma

U.S. District Judge R. David Proctor sentenced 49-year-old Brian David "Blaze" Boersma to 30 years for his crimes, which include attempted sex trafficking of a child, attempted kidnapping of a minor, attempted kidnapping and two federal firearm possession charges.

Boersma pleaded guilty to the charges in March.

He planned to kidnap a woman and her 14-year-old daughter, sexually assault and torture the woman and sell the 14-year-old girl to a sex trafficker in Tennessee, according to court records. Boersma falsely implicated the woman's ex-husband in the plot.

"Boersma's actions will forever remain despicable and the horrors that he intended upon innocent victims was avoided because a concerned citizen heard something and then said something," U.S. Attorney Jay Town said. "There is only one place suitably worse than prison for Boersma...and that day will come, too."

According to Boersma's plea agreement, he boasted to a co-worker at the Alabama Farmers' Cooperative in Decatur that he would sell the girl to a pimp he knew in Memphis and said he hoped to get as much as $40,000 because she was "a young, clean virgin." However, his contact in Memphis only offered him $8,000 for the girl, records show.

The plea agreement also shows that in Fall 2017, Boersma tried to encourage a coworker at the co-op to find someone willing to kidnap a woman and her daughter for payment. In multiple installments, Boersma gave the co-worker $3,440 to hold for a kidnapping payment.

The coworker told the FBI about Boersma's plan in mid-September and the bureau sent two undercover employees to pose as kidnappers, records show.

On Oct. 10, Boersma and his co-worker met at a Decatur motel with the undercover FBI agents posing as kidnappers and told the agents what he wanted done, provided photos of the two intended victims and gave the agents $3,440. He also led the agents to the woman's workplace, her home and the co-op, where he had a prepared trailer to hold the victims.

Boersma had prepared a trailer at the co-op with a mattress and restraints for holding the mother and daughter. He also put inside the trailer a metal "sex device" he built so the woman could be tied to it, beaten and raped.

Officials said he told the undercover FBI agents posing as kidnappers that he would "have to go get 300 pounds of lime and dig a hole" once the woman was dead. He reportedly told the agents he would get the lime from the co-op and bury the body under a nearby bridge.

Police arrested Boersma shortly after he returned to the Decatur hotel. Officers found a loaded Smith & Wesson M&P .40-caliber pistol in his truck. Boersma was prohibited from possessing the gun because of a felony unlawful possession of a controlled substance conviction in Shelby County, Tennessee, in 1998.

At first, he claimed the woman's ex-husband wanted the woman and 14-year-old girl kidnapped as retribution for the woman divorcing him and taking him to court for child support.

The FBI investigated the case with the Decatur Police Department. Assistant U.S. Attorney Davis Barlow prosecuted the case.

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