CSEC2008
United States US
Rishi Sanwal, 23 year old. Lived in El Dorado hills with his parents in a multi-million dollar mansion located at 3105 Hopkins Place in El Dorado Hills. On March 18 Kacie was seen entering Sanwal’s maroon colored Hummer outside a Safeway in the Stonegate Village near Francisco and Green Valley roads. Sanwal then used force, fraud, and coercion to cause a 17-year- old girl to engage in prostitution. Sanwal gave the victim the name “Amy” and used that name when he posted ads on the Craigslist erotic services section. He took the victim from El Dorado to the Bay area, before returning to Rocklin, CA and posting another Craigslist advertisement. Then once again they returned to the Bay Area.
Child Labor2010
United States US
STEPHEN MCKESSON, 24, of Citrus Heights, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Garland E. Burrell Jr. to 235 months in prison and restitution of $20,000 for sex trafficking of children by force, fraud, or coercion. MCKESSON pleaded guilty on May 19, 2009. MCKESSON pleaded guilty to transporting the victim, a 16-year-old Sacramento female, from Sacramento to Redwood City for the purpose of prostitution. The defendant had met this victim when she was 13 and he was approximately 16 years of age. When she was no older than 14, the defendant convinced the victim to work as a prostitute by telling her that if she loved him, she would prostitute for him. The victim worked as a prostitute for the defendant off and on for parts of the next five years, giving him all of the money that she earned through prostitution. The victim would travel to other cities in California and go door-to-door in certain apartment buildings while working for MCKESSON. On many occasions, the victim had run away from home, and each time that she was contacted by law enforcement and taken into custody, MCKESSON would convince her to leave her foster home to return to prostitution. MCKESSON used force to manipulate the victim into working for him as a prostitute. The violence began with relatively minor physical contact. Over time, his level of violence toward his victim increased, progressing to kicking and beating her in the head. The victim continued to work for him until 2008 at which time the violence had progressed to forcible sodomy and rape. The victim stated that she continued to work for him because he threatened to take her two children.
CSEC2009
United States US
Local police were first alerted when the second girl escaped, and then the FBI took over the investigation. Brown and Beacham were arrested and tried. Brown was sentenced on Nov. 29, 2010 to 30 years in prison, followed by a 10-year term of supervised release, as a result of his conviction at trial for charges of sex trafficking of children. Brown was also ordered to pay $5,200 in restitution. Beacham pled guilty to felony charges in April and details of her sentencing have not yet been resolved.