CSECArchive 2008–2016

CSEC in Sacramento, California (2008)

A CSEC case from 2008 in Sacramento, 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

Marvin Chapelle Epps, 23, met 16-yr-old victim on MySpace in September 2008 and offered for her to come work for him, and victim responded. He offered to buy her bus/train ticket for her to come from Solano county to Sacramento. He was her pimp for about three weeks in October 2008. He took erotic pictures of her and placed her advertisement on a number of sexual service sites including massage, escorts, etc. She reported all the money was turned over to him. Epps pleaded guilty on April 12 2010 and is scheduled to be sentenced at 10 am July 26, 2010. He faces the likely minimum 10 years in prison, $250,000 fine, a lifetime of supervised release and an order of restitution, though numbers may be higher due to specific variables according to the FBI.

Response and intervention

Innocence Lost Task Force iss composed of Sacramento Police Department and FBI Special Agents. Case was brought forward as part of the Project Safe Childhood, initiated by the US Dept. of Justice to increase safety of minors with regard to online networks. Extensive investigation by FBI's Innocence Lost Task Force. Unknown.

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CSEC2010

Sacramento, California, United States, 2010

United States US

Reginald Wilson, 23, of Sacramento, was sentenced on July 26, 2010 by United States District Judge Frank C. Damrell Jr., to seven and a half years in prison to be followed by 15 years of supervised release for sex trafficking of minors. Wilson pleaded guilty September 8, 2009. According to court documents, in December 2007 and January of 2008, Wilson recruited two girls, one 15 and one 16 years old, and caused them to engage in prostitution. ______________________________ PRIMARY SOURCE(S): FBI Sacramento - http://sacramento.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel10/sc072610a.htm SECONDARY SOURCE(S): Department of Justice - http://www.justice.gov/usao/cae/press_releases/docs/2010/08-12-10Sacramento%20PSC%20press%20release.pdf Sacramento Today - http://www.sacramentotoday.net/news/templates/community.asp?articleid=1210&zoneid=1 Sacramento Area Local News - http://cbs13.com/local/Trafficking.Craisglist.Court.2.690752.html Sacramento Bee - http://blogs.sacbee.com/mt/mt-search.cgi?IncludeBlogs=36&search=Reginald+Wilson+Jr.+of+Sacramento&keywords=Reginald+Wilson+Jr.+of+Sacramento&aff=5

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CSEC2010

Sacramento, California, United States, 2010

United States US

According to court documents filed in the case, on January 11, 2008, police received a report of a 15-year-old runaway from Montana. The police learned that the girl was being offered as a prostitute on Craigslist, and an undercover police officer made a “date” to meet her. The officer met her in a Sacramento motel room, confirmed that she was in fact the 15-year-old runaway, and took her into custody. The girl told police that she had run away from her home in Montana at West’s urging when she began talking to him online. West paid for a bus ticket for the girl to come to Sacramento from Montana, and she arrived on December 25, 2007. West met her at the bus station and took her to a female friend’s apartment where he had the woman post an ad on the online service RedBook offering the girl as a prostitute. The girl prostituted for West out of a Sacramento motel for two days.

Needs a sourceArchive 2008–2016