Sacramento County, United States
Mahendar "Mike" Singh, 40, and his wife, Helen Jean Singh, 22. Both are natives of Sacramento. Mahendar admitted to recruiting teenage females to provide sex services in exchange for money and drugs and to knowing that at least one of the teenagers was a juvenile. Mahendar Singh also admitted that he and his co-defendant(his wife) were able to maintain their victims’ services by providing them with money, clothing, and drugs, promising them a family-like environment, and using and threatening the use of physical force. An affidavit filed in connection with this case alleged that the defendants used an Internet website to advertise their victims and employed cell phones and text messaging to make arrangements with customers.
Location
United States · Sacramento County · 2011 (location generalized to protect survivors)
Response & intervention
Singh was arrested in August by South San Francisco Police. A Federal grand jury indicted Singh and his wife December 1, 2011 on sex trafficking conspiracy charges. Mahendar Singh pleaded guilty on January 11,2012 before a federal court in Oakland. His wife however entered a not guilty plea earlier and is out on bail. Mahendar Singh remains in custody and is scheduled to next appear on March 28, 2012 for sentencing before Judge Hamilton in Oakland, California. His co-defendant remains released on bond pending trial. this was a collaborative effort by the FBI, Homeland Security, and the South San Francisco Police Department.
police were looking for a runaway girl when they found Singh in a motel with two sixteen year old girls and a nineteen year old girl. Singh tried to tell police that they were his stepdaughters. Singh was arrested.
not much was said about what happened to the girls who were rescued.
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