Domestic Sex Trafficking of Minors - Women's Funding Network

— Curtsinger has been charged with one count each of first-degree sexual abuse, third-degree
rape, third-degree sodomy and promoting human trafficking, victim under the age of 18.
• June 14, 2010 – Hartford
— Reported June 14, 2010, by Fox 7 WTVW.
— Cristel Small made her initial appearance in court after being arrested for running a child
prostitution ring out of her house.
— Small was arrested after three men paid her to have sex with three female children in her
home.
Louisiana
• January 30, 2011- Baton Rouge
— Reported on January 31, 2011, by Natasha Robin of Fox 8 Live
— Erick Jermaine Banks, 29, was checking out of a Baton Rouge hotel at about 3 a.m. when he
was arrested and booked into Parish Prison on trafficking of children for sexual purposes,
reported Sgt. Don Stone.
— When police arrived, they found a 15-year-old runaway who told them she had been used for
prostitution for several days
— She told police that Banks placed an advertisement on an unknown domain online offering
her for sex
• February 17-18, 2010 – New Orleans
— Reported February 22, 2010, by Michelle Hunter of The Times-Picayune
— A joint investigation resulted in the arrests of two, separate pimps.
— Two girls, a 15-year-old and a 16-year-old, were taken into custody during prostitution stings
at local motels. That led to their pimps being sought out and arrested.
— On February 17, Alesha Bailey was charged with Child Trafficking for Sex Purposes. Her
and her boyfriend took nude photos of the 16-year-old victim and posted them on a website.
— On February 18, Nicholas Crutchfield was charged with Child Trafficking for Sex Purposes,
Promoting Prostitution, Carnal Knowledge of a Juvenile and Contributing to the Delinquency
of a Juvenile because of his interaction and coercion of the 15-year-old victim.
Maine
• July 8, 2010 – Kittery
— Reported July 8, 2010, by Elizabeth Dinan of The Portsmouth Herald.
— Gary Reiner was released from federal prison having served 60 months for managing a
brothel that offered underage girls for prostitution.
— Sentenced March 3, 2006, but was released early for good behavior (5 year sentence)
— One victim was 13-years-old.
Maryland
• May 20, 2011- Gaithersburg*
— Reported on May 20, 2011, by Danielle E. Gaines of Gazette.net
— William D. Martinez, 25, and James W. Torrence, 63, pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor
charge of solicitation of prostitution after being arrested in a November police investigation
using backpage.com where the men thought they were going to meet a 15-year-old girl for
sex
— All 11 men arrested in the sting were originally charged with sexual solicitation of a minor, a
felony that carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison
• May 11, 2011- Baltimore
— Reported on May 11, 2011, by Justin Fenton of The Baltimore Sun
— A 43-year-old Glen Burnie man was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for child sex
trafficking, after a missing 12-year-old called relatives from an Anne Arundel County motel
room and said she had been "recruited" into prostitution.
— Derwin Samuel Smith's sentence also includes 20 years of supervised release
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