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CSEC in Wichita KS Houston TX Nevada (2005)

A CSEC case from 2005 in Wichita KS Houston TX Nevada, United States. 1 source on file.

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What happened

John "Big John" Butler 47, William "Pookie" Hornbeak 34, Jamine "Fresh" Lake 27, Kristen "Princess" Land 28, Andre "Dre" McDaniels, Ronnie "Pimpin" Presley 35. Presley is from Wichita KS. All have now been arrested. Presley evaded authorities several times, including after being "cornered" but was finally arrested in Aug. Presley would kidnap victims at gun point on the streets of Wichita KS and take them to Houston. He threatened their families and would beat them up regularly. The traffickers have been charged with "a hefty load of federal crimes, including sex trafficking of children, sex trafficking by force and the transportation and coercion of minors". http://blogs.houstonpress.com/hairballs/2009/08/largest_prostitution_ring_hous.php

Response and intervention

Houston FBI investigation "Operation Total Exposure" began in May of 2005. There were four child victims. No information on any except one, who is now an adult. She worked out of Total Pleasures (Houston?) and a brothel in Nevada. No info on her condition other than she has been freed. unknown. The FBI calls this case the largest domestic human sex trafficking case in Houston because there were four children in one investigation. As general info - in 2008 there were 30 victims rescued in Houston alone through this Operation Total Exposure.

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Wichita, Kansas, United States, 2011

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Brandon W. Dennis, 25, Wichita, is charged with two counts of attempting to recruit teenagers to perform commercial sex acts. In one count, the victim is identified as “Jane Doe,” a 17-year-old Wichita girl. In the other case, the victim is identified as “Rissa,” a name used by a detective with the Wichita Police Department who was working undercover. A criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Wichita alleges that the 17-year-old victim met Dennis in the summer of 2011 at a party. She told him her age and they became friends on Facebook. On Oct. 23 and Oct. 24, 2011, she received several messages on Facebook from Dennis. He told her she could make up to $800 a day working as a prostitute. One message from Dennis read: “become a hoe n get paid n get rich.” When she declined his offer, he threatened her and sent her a message that said: “u jus nothing but a dog that needs the rite trainin n life.”

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Newton, Kansas, United States, 2004

United States US

Arlan Kaufman, 69, and his wife Linda Kaufman, 62, for over 24 years have operated the Kaufman house in Newton, Kansas. The house was a home for mentally ill patients. Arlan, a licensed social worker, and Linda, a registered nurse, routinely forced and coerced his patients to engage in nude “therapy” sessions. Arlan documented these sessions capturing himself directing the victims to perform sexually explicit acts in front of other patients. In some of the tapes Arlan can be seen sexually assaulting victims. Victims would constantly be forced to do nude labor, where they would tear down a barn, repair barbed wire fences and unload cement bricks from a pickup. The Kaufmans controlled virtually every aspect of the lives of the residents, determining which rooms they would sleep in, what furniture they would be allowed to have, when they would eat, what recreational activities they could engage in, when they could be downstairs and who could enter and leave the house. A “climate of fear” was present with the patients preventing them from contacting friends and family because afraid of consequence.

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