CSECArchive 2008–2016

CSEC in Charlotte, North Carolina (2008)

A CSEC case from 2008 in Charlotte, North Carolina, 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

Jorge Flores-Rojas, 44, an undocumented Mexican national trafficked two illegal minors between Charlotte, NC and Washington DC, one 17 year old Mexican girl and one 16 year old Honduran girl. He physically assaulted and abused the 16 year old Honduran girl, in order to make her perform the sexual acts. Jorge Flores-Rojas paid other persons to smuggle these victims from Mexico into the United States.

Response and intervention

Jorge Flores-Rojas was sentenced to 24 years in prison on two counts of sex trafficking of minors and one count of interstate transportation of an adult for purposes of commercial sex. He was also ordered to pay $117,000 in restitution to one of the victims. He will be required to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life and will be deported to Mexico upon his release. No information on how the case was discovered but because of extensive collaboration between ICE, Washington Metropolitan Police and Myrtle Beach Police Department, the investigation was made possible. Flores-Rojas was ordered to pay restitution to one of the victims. Otherwise, no information on the girls following the sentencing.

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Sex Trafficking2006

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Sex Trafficking2009

Charlotte, North Carolina, United States, 2009

United States US

Jorge Flores Rojas, 45, was a notorious sex trafficking operator in Charlotte. Local and federal authorities say Flores' ring brought in hundreds of young women each year to work as prostitutes. Flores, an illegal immigrant from Mexico, picked up vans full of eight to 10 young women each week outside the McDonald's on West Sugar Creek Road near Interstate 85, where other traffickers had brought them. Others, he smuggled in directly from Latin America. Authorities say he brought customers to his apartment off Sharon Amity Road near Eastland Mall, but mostly took the girls to hotels and brothels set up around the city. In November 2007, court documents say, he "sold" at least two teenagers from Mexico to Yaneth Martinez, a D.C. madam, who advertised her services with cards offering "Hair Cuts for Men Only." Martinez worked the girls in the capital city and gave Flores a cut of the profits. A month later, she returned them to him. Their business relationship worked like this for more than a year, federal authorities said.

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