A Brisbane pimp who paid his child prostitute in chicken nuggets will serve just nine months behind bars.

Ronald Vikash Gander, 27, was described by a District Court judge yesterday as a ''sleaze merchant'' who treated the 16-year-old girl as a ''piece of meat'' after it was revealed he had forced her to have sex with older men and take part in a lesbian sex romp in order to pay rent on his Spring Hill apartment.

The $4500 she made as a first-time prostitute went on living expenses, car hire and buckets of chicken nuggets for the girl, prosecutors said.

At the time of the offences, Gander was on parole for trying to pull off a multi-million dollar real-estate fraud involving the sale of a highrise city building.

Despite a scathing assessment of Gander's crimes by Judge Marshall Irwin, he will serve less than half of a two-and-a-half year sentence behind bars.