Temple Hills - Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Authorities say Shelby Lewis, age 42 , has been running a child sex trafficking operation since 2006. Two girls, ages 14 and 16, were arrested in May for prostitution and told police that Lewis was their pimp. Around the same time in May, police found a 13 year old who had been reported missing to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. She told police that Lewis had been prostituting her for the past three years. A fouth girl said she had been prostituted by Lewis since she was 12, two years ago,
Location
United States · Temple Hills - Baltimore, Maryland · 2009 (location generalized to protect survivors)
Response & intervention
The trafficker, Shelby Lewis, faces five counts of child sex trafficking.
The victims were arrested in a prostitution sting.
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