Baltimore, Maryland – Today a federal grand jury has indicted Rody L. Bowden, age 39, of Prince George’s County, Maryland, on charges of Sex Trafficking of a Minor, Sexual Exploitation of a... Read more »
Toledo, Ohio – A Toledo pastor is likely to spend 17 ½ years in prison after pleading guilty to sex trafficking of minors. Kenneth Butler, 38, pleaded guilty Monday to one count... Read more »
Virginia – A federal jury convicted two Hyattsville, Maryland men today of conspiracy to commit sex trafficking of minors, including by force, fraud, or coercion, as well as sex trafficking three minors,... Read more »
Dallas, Texas – Shenandoah West Moneypenny, 34, of Gladewater, Texas, and Shawn Dale Sanders, 43, of Dallas, Texas, remain in federal custody on a federal criminal complaint for the sex trafficking of... Read more »
Houston, Texas – Two U.S. defendants are in custody on allegations of conspiracy to commit sex trafficking by force, fraud and coercion, as well as visa fraud, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe... Read more »
U.S. Attorney Soo C. Song announced Thursday that a man, formerly of Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty to sex trafficking a minor. Twenty-eight-year-old Ronald Kyle Hartman of New Castle, Pennsylvania sex trafficked... Read more »
Baltimore prosecutors and police rely primarily on adult witnesses to crime to solve cases, but with the increasing violence in they city they have begun turning to the most unlikely source, children.... Read more »