By Nate Gartrell ngartrell bayareanewsgroup. Once there, she struck up a conversation with another woman, and opened up to her about financial problems she was having and going through a recent breakup. The woman, later identified as Sarah Keyosha Smith, 28, invited Doe back to her Rodeo home to spend the night watching movies and talking more. Doe agreed. By spending the night and eating breakfast, Doe had racked up a debt, they allegedly explained.
If Doe wanted to pay it off, she had to prostitute for them. Eventually, while meeting a couple in Sonoma County who had responded to a prostitution ad, Doe revealed she was being held against her will and convinced the couple to help her call a ride.
She escaped, and called police, authorities testified. Hernandez and Smith now face felony charges of human trafficking, pimping and pandering. Both defendants were ordered to stand trial last month, after a preliminary hearing where their attorneys disputed that Doe was being held against her will, pointing to numerous times she had opportunities to either flag police or get away from her alleged captors. He was permanently injured in a shooting and requires a wheelchair to get around, his attorney said during the preliminary hearing.
She told police that while traveling with Hernandez and Smith to Rohnert Park, Las Vegas, Texas, Los Angeles and other places, she would ask to be taken home and they would flat-out refuse. When she was able to get away after five weeks, Hernandez allegedly left menacing voice mail messages on her phone.
They pleaded not guilty at their arraignment hearing last week and a trial date has not been set.
