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Sex Trafficking in Redwood City, California (2010)

A sex trafficking case from 2010 in Redwood City, California, 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

The trafficker allegedly set up appointments for the victim, a 17-year-old girl, using Myredbook.com. The suspect met the victim when the victim was sitting on a curb in Oakland. She recruited the victim to work as a prostitute, took seductive pictures of the girl, posted them online, and handled all monetary transactions. The suspect was arrested on October 12, 2010 in the Good Nite Inn on Veterans Boulevard as part of a police sting operation.

Response and intervention

The suspect was arrested as part of a police sting operation. She pleaded not guilty to felony counts of pimping and pandering. A trial date of September 6, 2011 was set, and the suspect faces a maximum of 8 years in prison. Until that time, she was out of custody on $25,000 bail. Child Protective Services

CSEC2011

San Mateo County, United States, 2011

United States US

The couple was charged with child sex trafficking after officers discovered them at the Travelodge on Airport Boulevard in August with three teenage girls who said they were being held by force as prostitutes, according to police.

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Sex Trafficking2006

San Mateo, California, United States, 2006

United States US

Xiao Feng Shen, 35, of San Jose, Jia Jing Chu, 34, of San Jose, Ai-Ching Chang, 45, of Sunnyvale, Yan Song, 42, of San Jose, and Ming Sun, 32, of San Jose plead guilty to maintaining several residential brothels harboring Asian women who were being sold for sex.

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Sex Trafficking2009

San Mateo, United States, 2009

United States US

Timothy Richardson and Robert Hendricks pleaded guilty in mid August to traffickign two owmen in their 20's for commercial sex beginning in November when Hendricks met the victims in Lake Tahoe. Hendricks forced the women into acts of prostitution over the next several weeks. He then sold htem to Richardson. The women were often separated and beaten and one womans life was threatened. At some point one of them managed to reach a relative who called the Santa Clara Police.

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