5 charged in child prostitution ring

March 21, 2008 in Craigslist, Prostitution/Human Trafficking by Trench Reynolds | No comments

Feds Charge 5 in Craigslist Child Sex Ring:

This is basically a press release from the U.S. Attorney’s office in Michigan but it doesn’t change the fact that child prostitution is being carried out on craigslist…

Five defendants were charged in federal district court today with sex trafficking of minors, manufacturing child pornography, and other offenses arising from interstate prostitution networks based in Detroit, United States Attorney Stephen J. Murphy announced.

Murphy was joined in the announcement by Andrew G. Arena, Special Agent-In- Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in Detroit. Robert C. Daniels, a/k/a “Motor City Mink,” 28, of Detroit, and Dennis Paige, a/k/a “Detroit Slim”, of Novi, are alleged to be the leaders of separate but related interstate prostitution networks. Stephanie Head, 22, of Detroit, is described as Daniels’ “bottom,” the

highest ranking prostitute working for Daniels and is accused of soliciting and training minors to engage in prostitution, as well as photographing them engaged in sexually explicit conduct and posting digital solicitations on the internet. Sarah Dutton and Hortense Canty, of Novi, are alleged to have served similar roles for Paige.

The defendants are alleged to have posted over 2,800 advertisements on craigslist.org beginning on January 10, 2006. Solicitations for prostitution were posted for Houston, Texas, Chicago, Illinois, Detroit, Michigan, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Cleveland, Ohio, Washington, D.C., College Park, Maryland and New York City, New York. Other websites alleged to have been used to advertise and solicit child and adult prostitutes include myspace.com, cityvibe.com, blackplanet.com, and eros.com.

For those of you that belong to the cult of craig who think that child prostitution doesn’t happen on your precious craigslist this is just more proof that you’re fooling yourself.

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