Two brothers kidnapped a 16-year-old runaway and sold her for sex to as many as two dozen men every day , prosecutors in Miami said . Bogacski Thomas and Tavarus Ballard , both 24 , allegedly held the girl for two weeks , continually dosing her with drugs while they pimped her out to make money for hotel rooms , food and drugs . They are said to have plied her with cocaine and MDMA , and threatened to hurt her family if she tried to escape . When she did try to flee , they beat her , court papers said . Charged : Bogacski Thomas , left , and Tavarus Ballard , right , both 24 , allegedly held a teenage girl for two weeks , dosing her MDMA while pimping her out to make money for hotel rooms , food and drugs . Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle said it was one of the worst cases she 's seen . 'She to them was nothing more than a walking machine . No dignity , not a young girl . A cash machine , ' CBS Miami quoted her as saying . 'She was forced to engage in sex , up to 24 men , up to 24 men per night , ' Ms Fernandez Rundle said . 'That is a man every 30 minutes from 6am to 6pm at night . Only to repeat itself the next day and the next day . ' The local television station reported that Thomas faced so many charges he appeared unable to keep up as a judge read them aloud in bond court yesterday . He and Ballard are accused of preying on the girl after she ran away from home , forcing her into prostitution for two weeks in January until she was able to escape . To keep her subdued the pair allegedly provided her with cannabis , as well as spiking her food with 'Mollies ' - a slang term for MDMA tablets - and lacing her cigarettes with cocaine . They are said to have forced her to walk the streets of South Miami-Dade looking for Johns who paid just $ 100 dollars for full sex or $ 50 for a lesser sex act . Thomas and Ballard also allegedly touted for customers as well , even visiting gas station bathrooms in their search for men who would pay to have sex with the underage girl . 'Thomas told the victim that if she tried to leave they knew where her family lived and they would shoot up her house and hurt or kill her family , ' the warrant affidavit said . Nevertheless , the victim made a number of attempts to flee that resulted in her suffering punishment beatings at the hands of both men , investigators said . 'Every time she tried to escape they would beat her up , grab her back , ' Ms Fernandez Rundle said . 'In one case they picked her broken body up and took her back up into the motel . ' Streetwalking : The intersection of Campbell Drive and Krome Avenue , one of the areas that Thomas and Ballard forced the young girl to walk the streets looking for customers who paid $ 100 for sex . The girl was finally able to escape when she finished with a customer and realised Thomas was still in the bathroom of the hotel room where she was being kept , according to the warrant affidavit . She is said to have fled on foot and took a bus to another part of town , but was soon spotted by Thomas and Ballard as she walked down a street . Chased by both men , she ran into an abandoned house where they again subjected her to a vicious beating before themselves fleeing , according to the affidavit . Thomas and Ballard are facing a string of charges including human trafficking , lewd or lascivious battery on a child between 12 and 16 and deriving support from the proceeds of prostitution . Both men are being held at Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center , county records show . If they are found guilty they face life in jail .
Bogacski ##l and Tavarus ##z are facing life in prison if convicted . They allegedly injected the inmates with cocaine and MDMA to keep her quiet . If she tried to escape , they allegedly raped her and threatened to hurt her family .