Connecticut Woman Sentenced for Role in Sex Trafficking Ring
U.S. Newswire, April, 2008
To: NATIONAL EDITORS
Contact: U.S. Department of Justice, 1-202-514-2008, TDD: 1- 202-514-1888
WASHINGTON, April 1, 2008 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Justice Department announced today that Shanaya Hicks of Bloomfield, Conn., was sentenced today to 46 months in prison for her involvement in a prostitution ring that victimized minor girls and coerced young women to engage in commercial sex acts against their will.
Hicks and nine co-defendants were charged in a 64-count superceding indictment on August 8, 2006. Hicks pleaded guilty on March 14, 2007, to the following charges: two counts of sex trafficking of minors, two counts of sex trafficking of adult women (through force, fraud or coercion), and conspiracy. Eight other charged individuals, including...
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