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CSEC in Nashville, Tennesse (2006)

A CSEC case from 2006 in Nashville, Tennesse, 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

Juan Mendez and Cristina Andres Perfecto traveled to a rural area in Mexico to recruit underage girls to come to the United States under false promises of working in restaurants. Perfecto convinced a 13 and 17 year old girl to return to the United States with her. She charged them 3,000 dollars for recruitment fees. Once they arrived in Tennessee the girls were beaten and raped by Mandez and forced to work in brothels throughout the state and required to have sex with as many as 40 men a day.

Response and intervention

the Memphis Police Department, FBI, and Justice Department were all involved in this case. All five people involved in this case have been convicted of commercial sex trafficking and have received sentences of various lengths. Mendez was sentenced on June 27, 2008, to 50 years in prison to be followed by 10 years of supervised release and was also ordered to pay $100,000 in restitution to his victims. The two girls were freed from their bondage in November of 2006 and criminal charges were brought against Mandez, Perfecto, and three other men. The victims have received aftercare from various organizations and law enforcement agencies. The investigation was conducted by ICE and the FBI with assistance from the Memphis Police Department. Catholic Charities, the YWCA, World Relief, and the Salvation Army assisted the victims and witnesses in this matter FBI Salvation Army World Relief Catholic Charities ICE Memphis Police Department the YWCA

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Sex Trafficking2011

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Sex Trafficking2009

Florence, Alabama, United States, 2009

United States US

The trafficker was arrested, charged, tried and convicted on 09/22/2010 of sex trafficking a 15-year old girl. He was also convicted of coercing a minor to engage in prostitution, harboring an illegal alien and failing to file a report with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Florence police, the FBI and ICE investigated the case.

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Sex Trafficking2009

Medina, Tennessee, United States, 2009

United States US

Mark Burns, 48 was indicted by the Carroll County Grand Jury on two more counts of Aggravated Rape in addition to his previous charges of 10 counts of Aggravated Statutory Rape, 5 counts of Rape, 4 counts of Aggravated Rape, 2 counts of Possession of a Controlled Substance with Intent to Deliver, 1 count of Trafficking for Sexual Servitude and 1 count of Evading Arrest. He also previously violated his parole on three counts of Attempted Murder. Burns’ girlfriend, Lindsey Marie Tutor, 26, of Lexington, TN was also involved in abusing the victim with Burns. She was charged with 6 counts of Statutory Rape, 6 counts of Rape and 4 counts of Aggravated Rape. The charges stemmed from one victim who was repeatedly abused in 2008, but additional victims came forward after TBI arrested Burns in January 2009.

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