New Jersey-based sex trafficking ring

Lisa Thompson

Below you’ll find a link to a television news report, as well as a newspaper article concerning the bust of a New Jersey-based sex trafficking ring. If the news accounts are accurate, this ring was in operation for nearly two decades! Additionally, the pimp, Allen Brown, Jr. went by the name Prince, and allegedly had a throne in his home and wore a crown (visit the links to see photos). His mother, niece, and girlfriend have also been indicted — so notice how sex trafficking can be a family enterprise.

The especially good news about this case is that Brown is not only being charged with promotion of prostitution, but human trafficking as well. All too often men who pimp women who are U.S. citizens are not recognized as sex traffickers. Fortunately this is not the case here. Hopefully this will mark the beginning of a new trend. Remember pimps recruit, harbor, transport, and provision persons for purposes of commercial sexual exploitation — that’s sex trafficking. They also typically use a wide range of physical and psychological coercion — that’s a severe form of human trafficking as defined by federal law and prosecutable.

Congratulations to the New Jersey officials who investigated this case and who are bringing the charges. Now, let’s hope the trafficking victims are getting the assistance they undoubtedly need.

Abolition!

Lisa

http://www.breitbart.tv/crown-wearing-new-jersey-pimp-known-as-prince-ruled-operation-from-thrown/

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2009/08/head_of_jersey_citybased_sextr.html