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Sex Trafficking in Arkansas (2010)

A sex trafficking case from 2010 in Arkansas, United States.

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Documented on the original SlaveryMap (2008–2016). We don’t have a verifiable source on file yet. Know one?

What happened

The perpetrator plead guilty to one count of sex trafficking. His co-defendant, name unknown plead guilty to involvement with sex trafficking on October 23, 2009.

Response and intervention

The perpetrators were indicted and the first defendant was sentenced with 90 months in prison. The other is awaiting sentencing. The case, United States V Cooney resulted in guilty pleas for both defendants. No information is known about the victim. Law enforcement and Anti-trafficking agencies collaborated on this investigation.

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CSEC2009

Little Rock, Arkansas, United States, 2009

United States US

one male- Everett Cooney and a female prostituted a minor to pay for their drug habbit. They also got the victim addicted to drugs. Cooney's plea agreement saw the dropping of sex trafficking of a minor to sex trafficking. Female is to stand trial will be in October 2009.

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CSEC2009

Little Rock, Arkansas, United States, 2009

United States US

Everette Cooney and Tommy Handy were arrestd on charges of sex trafficking and sex trafficking of a child for commerical sexual explotation. They got girls between the ages of 14 through 18 to sell their bodies for th defendants personal gain.

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Child Labor2010

Little Rock, Arkansas, United States, 2010

United States US

United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, Jane W. Duke, and Thomas J. Browne, Special Agent in Charge of the Little Rock Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation announced today that Everett Cooney was sentenced by United States Chief Judge J. Leon Holmes to 90 months' imprisonment followed by five years of supervised release on a federal charge of sex trafficking an underage female. . Cooney’s co-defendant, Tommy Handy, plead guilty to a charge of sex trafficking on October 23, 2009. Pursuant to the plea agreement, the pending indictment was dismissed. Handy’s plea exposes him to a minimum of 10 years' and up to life imprisonment. He is awaiting sentencing by the court. Handy remains in custody pending his sentencing.

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