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Nine people were arrested in a Santa Rosa prostitution sting and an underage girl was taken into protective custody after she was brought to an upscale hotel by a 19-year-old man suspected of pimping her, authorities said.
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Specific details unknown. Only information known is that a neighbor took the child to a local hospital because she was complaining of stomach pain. By this time the girl was 13 years old. It was soon discovered that she was 6 months pregnant. She had an emergency C-section ahd gave birth to a baby boy.
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Jeffrey Fisher was arrested for promoting prostitution, witness tampering and eluding police. He had met Stephanie, a 14 year old girl on an online chat room. They quickly started a sexual relationship. In July on 2006, she agreed to work as a prostitute. Though she pulled in nearly $500 a day working along the stretch of Aurora known to prostitutes and police as "the track", she said the money wasn't nearly enough for Fisher. He gambled away the money she earned, beat her if he was unhappy, called her names and followed her, demanding that she work harder. Within months the beatings worsened and escalated into death threats. She begged police to take her to jail so she could get away from Fisher. She went to Children of the Night in Los Angeles last February and stayed about 3 months - until she was desperate to see Fisher. In May, after returning to Aurora, she's finally had enough. She helped the Seattle Police Department Vice Unit go after Fisher. He was finally arrested after fleeing to California.
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From 2000 to 2005 Jimmie Lee Jones, also known as “Mike Spade,” conspired to force six victims to engage in commercial sex acts. Jones knew that two of the victims were minors. He recruited young women at colleges, stores, events, and restaurants saying he represented a successful modeling and casting agency- called either Candy Girl Casting or Dime Piece Entertainment. An associate, names Michelle, a woman who had found modeling work would recruit victims as potential models. After the victims became comfortable around him, he told them it was necessary that they work in strip clubs as dancers, because they needed to be more comfortable with their bodies before they could be models. Five of the victims signed contracts stating they would pay him between $300 and $450 every week for 52 weeks. The contracts states that Jones would find them work modeling or in music videos. He also required that the women give him their social security number. Jones then became physically and verbally abusive. Under these threats, Jones forced the victims to travel, primarily to Florida, Alabama, and Indiana, to engage in prostitution.
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From news reports by the Syracuse Post Standard, February 27, 2009, and April 20, 2009. "[Tashia] Edwards, 33, of 203 W. Corning Ave., is accused of forcing a 16-year-old girl to have sex with men. The money she was paid was supposedly to reimburse her for the girl spending the night at Edwards' home. According to police reports, the girl voluntarily stayed at Edwards' home in December, but when she tried to leave the next day, Edwards wouldn't let her go. Instead, Edwards told the girl that she owed Edwards money for food and the room for the night, the victim told police. Edwards physically restrained the girl to keep her from leaving, court records said. Edwards took the girl's clothing, leaving her naked, and threatened the girl with physical harm if the girl did not engage in various sex acts with several males to pay off her expenses, court papers said. " -Syracuse Post Standard, 2/27/2009 and 4/20/2009
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Five victims from Tampa and one from St. Petersburg were held victims of human trafficking and forced to work in prostitution and advertised on the internet. Some of the locations included Nebraska Avenue motels and casios.. All the victims were 16 or 17 years old. Four of the six victims were identified as endangered runaway children by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
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Shanelle Nichole Carlson is a 22 year old, white woman who put up sexually explicit ads of a 15 year old girl on Craiglist. "Nikki," as she was referred to in ads, was in the custody of Carlson with the permission of her mother. After the latest ad was put on Craiglist showing "Nikki" in sex acts with two different "johns," Tigard police aprehended Carlson. Carlson had been staying with the minor at a Motel Six where they had been staying for a few days.
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Two girls, ages 15 and 14, came home from school as many teens do each day. They did homework, finished their chores and then asked a common request from their parents - the two girls wanted to walk to a nearby Wendy's Restaurant to grab a couple of frozen desserts. The restaurant was less than a mile from their homes, so their parents had no reason to deny the request. The two young girls, both good students and trusted by their parents, set off on their quest just before evening. On the way there, a car pulled up next to the girls and one of them thought she recognized the driver - Deric Willoughby - as the father of a classmate. The mistaken identity led her and her cousin to trust Willoughby enough to get into his car to allow him to drive them to the Wendy's. They were grateful for the ride. The ride, however, was the beginning of their captivity. Willoughby drove to his home, just a couple of miles across town from the teens' homes. He and his accomplices gave them new names (Ambrosia and Heavenly) and fitted them for skimpy outfits after telling them that they would be forced to have sex with men for money. Willoughby used his connections to arrange for a driver to pick up the teens and take them from Ohio and across state lines to truck stops in Michigan where the girls could easily be sold for an evening's entertainment. Both of the girls were forced to service multiple customers. The girls were kept at Willoughby's house during the day and pimped at night. One night, something happened that Willoughby wasn't expecting. One of the truck drivers called the police after being disgusted that such young girls were being offered to truckers at his stop. The call alerted the local sheriffs department which immediately responded. The entire crew was stopped and questioned, save for the 15-year-old, who was being raped in nearby truck. The 14-year-old gave officers a fake name and told them she was over 18. Something about her demeanor prompted sheriff's deputies to arrest her and send Willoughby and his crew packing. Information about this incident came from ABC News which did an in-depth report about this case in Ohio: http://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/Story?id=5382645&page=1
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Two girls ages 14 and 15 lured into car and forced to service customers at truck stops across state lines in Michigan Accused: Deric Willoughby and accomplices.
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The suspect was a 23 year old man who forced a 12 year old girl into prostitution. He met her thorugh a mutual friend on January 9th and invited her to hang out. Police said he had unprotected sex with her that night and several times over the next several days. When the girl failed to return home the night of the 9th, her family filed a missing persons report. During the five days, the two stayed at the homes of several women who described themselves as the suspect's fiances. She was ordered by the man to walk the streets of South King County to work as a prostitute and the man allegedly told her the exact price to charge for each sex act. She was also told not to tell her age to any customers. One of the suspect's "financees" became angry about the girl and called a phone number she found in a school binder that the girl had left at her home. The person who answered the phone turned out to be the 12 year old girl's sister. The "fiancee" told the sister where the missing girl was in downtown Seattle. Police said relatives found the girl Sunday night with the man in downtown Seattle. The relatives took the girl to Harborview Medical Center where a rape examination was performed and then went to the Seattle police department's West Precinct and notified police they had found her. After talking to the girl, the police found the suspect on a West Seattle street. According to detectives, the man's acquaintances say he has befriended other young girls, raping them as well as coercing them into prostitution.
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A prostitution sting in December 2008 led to the arrest of 6 men, who allegedly prostituted 13 girls and women. One girl was at least 15yrs old at the time. It is alleged that the men used violence and coercion, forcing the girls to walk the street, and give the men their earnings. Five of the men have plead guilty to state related prostitution charges, in order to avoid federal human trafficking charges. The sixth has yet to plead out or face trial.
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Shaun Leoney, 26, of Dorchester, Mass.; Darryl Tavares, 24, of Revere, Mass.; Eddie Jones, 25, of Roxbury, Mass.; Rueben Porcher, 29, of Dorchester; Aaron Brooks, 23, of Quincy, Mass.; and Trueheart Peeples, 30, of Portland, Maine have been charged with sex trafficking of children, transportation of minors for the purpose of prostitution, and conspiracy. According to the indictment, between approximately February of 2001 and December of 2005, Leoney, Tavares, Jones, Porcher, Brooks and Peeples conspired with each other to transport adults and minors between states for prostitution, assisting each other, and ultimately profiting from each other’s endeavors. The defendants operated in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maine, and Massachusetts. The Indictment also alleges that Leoney, Tavares, Jones, Porcher, and Peeples trafficked minors for the purpose of prostitution.
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The evidence presented at trial established that in June, 2007, FLINT and co-defendant James Roney brought two victims, a 15-year-old girl and an adult woman from Cleveland, Ohio to Detroit for the purpose of making money through prostitution and striptease dancing, and for the purpose of having sex with them. While in Detroit, defendant FLINT instructed the victims that they would have to engage in commercial sexual acts for money, including sexual intercourse and oral sex. Flint was sentenced with 135 months in prison.
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20-year-old coerced 14-year-old into running away introduced her to drugs and forced her into prostitution Accused: Sandra Panecka age 20.
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Using drugs and fake friendships, seven Varrio Central gang members, ages 15-19, lured runaways and other underage girls with troubled families into a prostitution ring, which operated out of a Glen Garden Drive apartment complex. The victims, some as young as 12 years old, were forced to perform sexual services for $50. If a girl declined, she was beat, raped, and her family threatened. A fifteen year-old girl also allegedly recruited the victims by going to their homes, posing as their friend, and pretending to pick them up to go to the movies or shopping.
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Paul Raymond Green, a/k/a “PJ,” age 23, of Washington, D.C., arranged on two separate occasions to provide minor victims to an acquaintance of Green’s who was paying to have sex with the victims. On both occasions “dippers” or “wets” (cigarettes dipped in phencyclidine liquid known as PCP), were available in the hotel room where the girls were brought to have sex. Green also sold cocaine to that same individual.
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In 2007, a security guard at a Miami middle school, was indicted. The security guard met his 14-year-old victim through one of the students at the school. He began a sexual relationship and eventually forced the victim to sell her body. The victim remained under the security guard’s control until the day prior to his arrest, when the victim's mother located her and the victim returned home.
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The defendants in this case allegedly courted girls as young as 17 from Mexico, smuggled them into the United States under pretense and eventually conspired to transport them across state lines for the purposes of prostitution. According to federal Criminal Indictment NO. 1:08-CR-317-CC, five women were smuggled into the US, harbored as aliens, and had hidden from them the fact that they would be prostituted to repay the group for smuggling fees and other expenses. The indictment states that the Rugerios and Hernandez "targeted young, vulnerable women and teenagers with limited resources, and used violence, sexual assaults, threats of violence, threats of violence to family members, and threats of deportation and imprisonment, to compel the victims to engage in prostitution."
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Oakland Police department arrested the victim. Law enforcement from Arizona was also involved. They sent the victim back to California after a stay in the hospital.
United States US
Sean Jarae Hart, also known as Hush, has been charged in an 11-count indictment with sex trafficking of a child for transporting a young girl across state lines for the purpose of prostitution. Between May 25 and June 5, 2006, Hart drove the young girl to various areas within Seattle and Everett for the purposes of prostitution. Also, from January-April 2006 Hart forced two women to travel between Washington and Nevada, to have them engage in prostitution and take their earnings. He was arrested in Oregan. Also charged in the indictment is Randy Wamon Ivey, who allegedly picked the girl up at Sea-Tac Airport on May 24 had her work for him as a prostitute. An unnamed co-conspirator arranged for the girl to fly from California to Seattle. Ivey is a fugitive.
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Bianchi's case is among more than 50 that have been brought under a largely untested 2003 law that puts Americans accused of preying on children overseas on trial in U.S. courtrooms. Several boys from Moldova were brought to Philadelphia to testify in 2007. They testified that Bianchi assaulted them in small boarding houses where he stayed during his trips. the Moldovan boys testified that Bianchi invited them to have dinner or go bowling with them, and before long made sexual advances. One boy said Bianchi raped him, while another said he was assaulted while he was intoxicated. Another said that Bianchi asked to sleep with him in his bed in his family's small apartment -- and that he fled when Bianchi started fondling him.
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Corey Davis was the ring-leader of a sex-trafficking ring that spanned at least three states, and exploited as many as 20 women, including minors one of which was only 12 years old. Davis lured victims to his operation with promises of modeling contracts and a glamorous lifestyle. Davis then forced them into a grueling schedule of dancing and performing at strip clubs in Connecticut, New York and New Jersey. When the clubs closed, Davis forced the victims to walk the streets until 4:00 or 5:00 A.M. propositioning customers. The indictment also alleged that Davis beat many of the victims to force them to work for him and that he also used physical abuse as punishment for disobeying the stringent rules he imposed to isolate and control them. The victims earned up to $5,000 a night in these activities, which Davis confiscated and kept for himself. more info at: http://newhaven.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/2007/nh031607a.htm
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John France Gonzales Age: 23 former pharmacy technician Gonzales met the girl in 2000, when she was 10 years old and living in San Bruno with her aunt, whom Gonzales was dating, according to former defense attorney Jeffery Neubarth. Gonzales molested the girl for the first time when she was 12 and maintained his relationship with the girl for several years while she lived in San Bruno and with her grandmother in Healdsburg. Gonzales allegedly took the girl from her grandmother's home in August 2005 and told her that she could not return, eventually moving her into a bedroom at his parents' Daly City home in October 2005, according to prosecutors. The girl remained with Gonzales until October 2006 when Gonzales' parents' home was foreclosed on, forcing Gonzales to move out and return the girl to her family. A few weeks after returning home, she told members of her family of her ordeal. The victim, who prosecutors say initially went willingly to Gonzales' home, reportedly told authorities she and Gonzales had sexual relations more than 500 times in five counties. Gonzales held the girl captive in the basement of his parents’ Daly City home for 18 months. John Paule France Gonzales smuggled food into his locked room and disposed of the girl's feces in plastic bags to keep her hidden from his parents, prosecutors said. "He used threats to himself, to her and to her family members to either play upon her sympathies or scare her into having sex with him for years," McKowan said. "Did he put her in chains and lock her in a bedroom and never let her out? No," Pitt said. But "because of his perverted sexual assaults on her over time, she was scared. He threatened at various times to kill her, he threatened to kill her family and he threatened to kill himself if she left him."
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Timothy Houser, 53, was arrested in October 2006 after a tip from the Denver Police Department that Houser had contacted a 16-year-old female who posted an ad in the erotic services section of Craigslist. Detectives said Houser gave the teen directions to his house in Parker, where there was a sexual encounter that he paid for.