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CSEC in Sacramento, California (2010)

A CSEC case from 2010 in Sacramento, California, United States. 5 sources on file.

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What happened

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

Response and intervention

This case is the product of an extensive investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Innocence Lost Task Force, and Assistant United States Attorney Kyle Reardon, who prosecuted the case. This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood (PSC), a nationwide initiative by the Department of Justice to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse. Led by United States Attorneys’ Offices and the Criminal Division’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, PSC mobilizes federal, state, and local resources to locate, apprehend, and prosecute individuals who exploit children via the Internet, as well as to identify and rescue victims. For more information, visit [www.projectsafechildhood.gov] or call the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of California and ask to speak with the PSC coordinator.

CSEC2008

Sacramento, California, United States, 2008

United States US

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.

Needs a sourceArchive 2008–2016
CSEC2011

Sacramento, California, United States, 2011

United States US

Will Moss forced minors into prostitution, transported them across state lines and controlled them through force and intimidation. Moss repeatedly assaulted and raped them. Moss was sentenced to 40 years in federal prison and 10 years of supervision, when and if he is released he must register as a sex offender.

Needs a sourceArchive 2008–2016
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