A girl fled Oregon foster care to find her mom. Four days later she was being trafficked on Vallejo streets, feds say

VALLEJO — The 15-year-old girl looked down at a choice of revealing outfits, then back up at the 37-year-old man who’d been a stranger to her just one day earlier, prosecutors say.

“No,” she told him, according to a criminal complaint. “You’ve already hit me, you’ve already raped me, I’m not doing that.”

The man, identified in court records as Donte “Tay Butta” Riley, of San Leandro, told her to comply “or he would shoot her in the head,” FBI Special Agent Lyndsey Caron wrote in court filings.

It had been a rough 48 hours for the Oregon teen; on Sept. 14, 2025, she had fled a state child care custodian to look for her biological mother. Instead, at a motel in Portland, she’d crossed paths with a convicted human trafficker who allegedly lifted his shirt to show the butt of a gun, and asked her if she had a “man.” Now, here she was in California, being given a choice between child sex trafficking and death, according to prosecutors.

The girl would be rescued on Sept. 19, 2025, after texting a friend in Oregon, who in turn called local authorities, who notified Vallejo police, according to court records. Vallejo officers found her around 1 a.m. at a Motel 6 in the city, and authorities conducted an extensive interview with her a week later, where she detailed her ordeal.

Now, Riley is in federal custody, having been arrested in the Bay Area and extradited to Oregon, where he faces federal charges of sex trafficking, kidnapping, and transportation of minors with intent to commit a sex crime, court records show.

Just four months before the alleged offenses, Riley had pleaded no contest to human trafficking and received 126 days in jail and two years probation in Alameda County, ending a prosecution that originally saw him charged with kidnapping, pandering, false imprisonment, and pimping. Riley’s criminal history is extensive, and includes a 2019 attempted pimping conviction in San Mateo, a 2024 pimping conviction in San Joaquin County, and a 2007 conviction for voluntary manslaughter, as a juvenile, in Alameda County, court records show.

Despite the terms of his probation forbidding it, Riley allegedly traveled to Oregon and continued involvement in sex trafficking, prosecutors say. He was at the Evergreen Inn in Portland when he bumped into the 15-year-old girl, referred to in court records only as “MV” for “Minor Victim.” When he asked her if she had a “man,” she said no, adding that she was only 15: So, the FBI said, he took her.

On the way down to California from Oregon, Riley, the girl, and a woman he was with took multiple cars, sharing the driving. The girl told FBI agents she drove badly on purpose so that they’d get pulled over, but it didn’t work, and Riley later recognized what she was doing and hit her. By the time they arrived, he’d sexually assaulted her, given her a bloody nose, and would sharpen knives in front of her as a form of intimidation, the criminal complaint alleges.

Riley allegedly explained to her how her life would work thereafter: She’d be required to spend 12 hours a day on city streets, looking for men who she would charge “$120 for car dates and $150-$200 for hotel dates that lasted 30-45 minutes,” the complaint says. Each transaction represented a man who sexually abused her, prosecutors say. She allegedly made about $4,000 per day in this fashion, but gave it all to Riley.

“MV was not allowed to date anybody else, leave without permission, or do anything without permission,” the complaint says. “MV and the others were not allowed to get in bed unless they showered.”

At the end of each day, she told the FBI, Riley would check her body and others she was trafficking to make sure she’d shaved her armpits and pubic area, as required. If she got tired, she was given “blue pills” that allowed her to “stay awake longer and keep working,” the complaint says.

Riley’s 2025 case, in Alameda County, involved allegations that he lured a woman, “Jane Doe,” to a San Leandro motel under the guise of needing help in a lucrative phone scam. Instead, Riley and a woman named Itaty Turner, 27, allegedly forced the woman “to prostitute herself, giving all the money she earned selling sex, to Turner, who Doe witnessed giving the collected money to Riley,” police said in court filings. They also gave the woman drugs, according to prosecutors.

Riley was charged in April 2025 and pleaded no contest to human trafficking just a month later. Turner pleaded no contest to an assault charge and was sentenced to probation, court records show.

Federal prosecutors say they reviewed Riley’s Instagram handles, “@tay_butta” and “@butta_bandz,” and found additional evidence he was involved in sex trafficking, and that he was at the Evergreen in mid-September. Phone location data suggests they made the trip from Oregon to Vallejo on Sept. 16, prosecutors say.

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