Sex trafficking, as the federal government defines it, is “the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision or obtaining of a person for the purpose of a commercial sex act” by means of “force, fraud, or coercion.” This is a form of modern-day slavery.
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A 19-year-old Staunton man is behind bars amid allegations he was sexually involved with a younger teenage girl, and police said he was also found with multiple images of child pornography, according to an arrest report.
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Cornell Devore Rhymes, 32 was sentenced Friday to 15 years in prison in connection with forced and coerced sex-trafficking young women held against their will at area motels in Dumfries and Springfield, Virginia.
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This bill would set harsher penalties for prostitution-related crimes involving minors unanimously passed the House. “Now we are going after those who are customers,” Watts said.
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“We recently had a young lady who tried to escape from their trafficker and he sicked two pit bulls on her. They violently attacked her and left her for dead in the woods.”
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It’s inside Smithfield High School teacher Matt Ployd’s government class where Monica’s Law came to life. Students knew they had an assignment coming up where they would have to make a mock bill to demonstrate they knew how a bill becomes law. But the students had a better idea.
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federal jury convicted a Woodbridge man Wednesday for sex trafficking two girls, ages 14 and 16. In court documents Steve Nowell, 64, is described as a frequent commercial sex customer of a prostitution ring led by Michael Gunn
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On Wednesday afternoon, Virginia Beach Police arrested 22-year-old Shaquan Cuffee for producing and distributing child porn, using electronic means for child sex crime, receiving money from earning of prostitution and detaining a person for prostitution.
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A Virginia man was sentenced today to 186 months in prison and 10 years of supervised release for multiple crimes related to the prostitution and exploitation of a 15-year-old minor. Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney G. Zachary Terwilliger of the Eastern District of Virginia, and Assistant Director in Charge Nancy McNamara of the FBI’s Washington Field Office made the announcement after the sentence was handed down by U.S. District Judge Anthony J. Trenga of the Eastern District of Virginia.
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Police arrested a man Tuesday in Staunton on child molestation and prostitution charges, according to authorities.
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