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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
Timothy Lee, 42, and son Charles Lee, 24 of Arizona were arrested at a hotel south of downtown Nashville and charged with trafficking women in sexual servitude .The victims were a 20 year old from Texas,who was picked up at a bus station and held against her will, a 22 year old woman from Las Vegas and two sisters, ages 22 and 18, from Denver. Detectives later found three of the women advertised in the erotic services sections of three Internet sites. One of the women told police that she had been traveling with the men for the past few years and was not allowed to leave them. The Texas woman was approached with a job offer at a bus station.The women were sold for prostitution in Colorado, California and Idaho as well as Tennessee.
Response and intervention
Metro Nashville law enforcement officers arrested the father and son team, who are charged with trafficking in sexual servitude. Charles Lee was also charged with tampering with evidence for intentionally breaking a cell phone believed to be involved in the prostitution business and Timothy Lee was also charged with misdemeanor marijuana possession. The case has currently been turned over to the Grand Jury. The 20 year old asked employees at the Nashville Hotel, The Red Roof Inn, to call the police, which they did. The traffickers were arrested when they arrived at the hotel with three other women, to pick up the 20 year old.