Operation Phobos

In 2021, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children received more than 17,200 reports of child sex trafficking from all 50 U.S. states, Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico.

Canadian police arrested 13 men, including one U.S. national at a hotel in Niagara Falls and charged them all with child sex trafficking offenses.

LOS ANGELES – A South Los Angeles man was sentenced today to life in federal prison for recruiting and enticing teenage girls for whom he acted as a “pimp” and providing them for commercial sex work.

ALBANY, NEW YORK – Christopher Thomas, age 40, of Colonie, New York, was sentenced today to 480 months (40 years) in prison for sex trafficking minors and related offenses.

A DeSoto man who drugged young girls and then forced them into commercial sex was sentenced today to Life in federal prison, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Leigha Simonton.

A GOP donor with strong connections in the Minnesota Republican Party was jailed to 21 years in prison Wednesday for sex trafficking underage girls. Anton “Tony” Lazzaro was found guilty of seven sex charges against five girls aged 15 and 16, the Associated Press reported. 

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – A Milwaukee, Wisconsin man was sentenced in federal court today for the sex trafficking of a child.

A Minnesota Republican political operative was convicted of orchestrating a sex trafficking conspiracy involving juvenile females, the Department of Justice said in a news release. Anton “Tony” Lazzaro, 32 of Minneapolis, was convicted on one count of conspiracy to commit sex trafficking of minor...

Mario Waters, 34, of Palestine, Arkansas, was sentenced to life in prison for conspiracy to commit sex trafficking of a six-year-old child.

Department of Justice U.S. Attorney’s Office Western District of Wisconsin FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Friday, September 30, 2022 Rock County Man Sentenced to 20 Years for Sex Trafficking of an Adult & a Minor 

ANCHORAGE, Alaska – A Fairbanks man was sentenced today to 25 years in prison for coercing two minors to engage in sexually explicit conduct.

ST. LOUIS – U.S. District Judge Matthew T. Schelp on Wednesday sentenced a former Potosi, Missouri police officer to 25 years in prison for soliciting sexual acts and nude pictures in exchange for cash, vape cartridges and other items from three male minors.

MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA – Destiny Rebecca Somersall, age 41, of Martinsburg, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 40 years in federal prison for sex trafficking of a child.

MINNEAPOLIS – A Minneapolis man has been sentenced to 252 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for orchestrating a sex trafficking conspiracy in which he trafficked multiple minor girls, announced U.S. Attorney Andrew M. Luger.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. – After four days of trial, a federal jury convicted Larry Allen Clay Jr., 57, of Fayetteville, of sex trafficking a 17-year-old minor female.

Survivors of Jeffrey Epstein are accusing ex-JPMorgan Chase senior executive turned Barclays CEO Jes Staley of "participating" in the billionaire sex trafficker's abuse, Law&Crime; reported. 

A 41-year-old man and a 30-year-old woman, both of San Jose, have been sentenced to lengthy prison terms for their roles in a conspiracy to exploit underage girls for child pornography and sex trafficking, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.