The owner of a massage parlor in South Central Pennsylvania was arrested after being accused of using the establishment to sell customers sexual services performed by herself and her staff. In the fall of 2023, “Operation: Closed2Trafficking” was launched in Cumberland County to try to curtail sex trafficking that was…
A Pennsylvania man who works as a clown was picked up in an undercover investigation for allegedly posting an ad offering sexual services for cash. On May 18, agents from the Carbondale Police Department launched an undercover investigation targeting sex workers in the area. Since many people post online ads…
When a man went to visit a woman he met online, she allegedly tried to force him to give her money at gunpoint before shooting at him as he ran away after escaping from the residence. On April 24, a man and woman who met on Facebook and formed a…
A Florida man accused of a similar crime nearly a decade ago is facing new charges after he reportedly tried to take a 14-year-old boy he met online to an out-of-state “furry” convention without consent. At the end of March, a 33-year-old man from Longboat Key, Florida, was reportedly in…
Following the arrest of a Catholic grade school teacher who allegedly used photos of students to digitally create pornography that was distributed to others, a lawsuit against the archdiocese was filed. Between the end of March 2022 and the beginning of February 2024, a 39-year-old man who taught seventh and…
A Kentucky man was jailed after the authorities reportedly found a missing 16-year-old girl from North Carolina hidden under the floor in his bedroom. According to reports, last month, a 34-year-old man from Lexington, Kentucky, drove to Fayetteville, North Carolina, to pick up an underage girl he met online. The…
A fourth-grade teacher in Covington, Tennessee, was arrested last week after allegations that she raped a 12-year-old boy who used to be her student in his residence. On August 24, the Tennessee Department of Children Services informed the Criminal Investigation Division at the Covington Police Department that they had received…
According to the police, two Florida men were found with a missing teen girl who they had allegedly been sex trafficking and reportedly using her to entice a second young female into joining them. It was reported that recently, a 15-year-old girl from the Miami-Dade area went missing. When the…
Two people in Florida allegedly used social media to recruit underage girls for sex acts that the man recorded on video. According to reports, 33-year-old Marc Phillip Dinkels and 19-year-old Taylor Kathleen Brandt met online. They reportedly began to spend time together after Dinkels allegedly told Brandt he would pay…
A man in Oregon was accused of kidnapping and raping a 13-year-old girl from Canada who was reportedly found at his home after she was missing for over a week. It was reported by the Edmonton Police Service that on June 24, a 13-year-old girl was marked absent from school.…