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CSEC in Hammond, Indiana (2009)

A CSEC case from 2009 in Hammond, Indiana, United States.

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What happened

Justin Cephus, 31, Stanton Cephus, 28, and Jovan Stewart, 30, all of Hammond, Haneef Jackson-Bey, 20, of East Chicago, and Delbert Patterson, 19, of Steger, Ill., have been charged with conspiring to commit and committing sex trafficking and prostitution violations. The indictment charges all five with participating in the conspiracy and committing one or more offenses involving the sex trafficking of minors, the transportation of minors across state lines for the purpose of prostitution, the sex trafficking of adult women through the use of force, fraud, or coercion, and the transportation of minor and adult women form Indiana to Illinois and from Illinois to Indiana for the purposes of prostitution. Prosecutors say the defendants were brutal with the prostitutes. The defendants and others who were not charged Tuesday punched, kicked, cut, choked and sexually assaulted prostitutes, according to the charges. The defendants intimidated the prostitutes, attacking women within sight or earshot of other women, the indictment claims. The defendants gave the women cocaine, Ecstasy, Xanax and other drugs "as a means of numbing their senses," the indictment states.

Response and intervention

Haneef Jackson-Bey, who was indicted in the U.S. District Court in Hammond, had been charged as part of a conspiracy along with Justin and Stanton Cephus, two brothers who have already been convicted of numerous counts of sex trafficking of children and transporting women for prostitution. Patterson has already pleaded guilty, and Stewart was convicted along with the Cephus brothers in a trial last year. Stewart and Cephus have yet to be sentenced. The men were arrested in March 2009 after police accused them of luring women in to their prostitution ring by saying they would help them with modeling careers and then offer them drugs, manicures and clothes.

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