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Fort smith, Arkansas, United States

The girl told police she got involved when another minor female, who said she was being prostituted by the trafficker, told her she could make up to $100 for each man she had sex with, a police report states. One teenage girl told investigators she was given gas money to drive Trotter and another underage girl to different locations where they were paid to have sex, while yet another teenage girl told police the trafficker took her to a residence one night where she was paid to have sex with five men. One teenage girl interviewed by police denied being prostituted by the trafficker, instead, her "job" was to hand out condoms to the men to "protect the girls." The trafficker admitted introducing the girls to men who paid them for sex, but denied taking any money the girls were paid for sexual acts when she was interviewed by investigators, a police report states. The girls were threatened when they tried to stop being prostituted, and the trafficker took 1/2 of all money earned.

Location
United States · Fort smith, Arkansas · 2009 (location generalized to protect survivors)
Response & intervention
Police began investigating the trafficker after a 14-year-old female revealed to Fort Smith police during an unrelated investigation that the trafficker would set up "dates" for her with men with whom she would have sex for $100, with Trotter receiving half the money, according to a police report. The Fort Smith woman was sentenced to 31⁄2 years in prison Wednesday after pleading guilty to four counts of promoting prostitution and one count of fourth-degree sexual assault in Sebastian County Circuit Court.
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