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— Police said Lee had other women working for him in Rutherford, Davidson and Marshall
counties.
— Lee was taken into custody Jan. 16 at the Northgate Apartments in Lewisburg, Tenn. A $1.5
million bond was set for Lee, who is being held at the Rutherford County Sheriff's Detention
Center.
• December 9, 2010- Columbia
— Reported on December 20, 2010, by The Daily Herald
— Maury County authorities have arrested a Columbia woman accused of advertising sex
services by a juvenile.
— Amanda Thompson, 20, 109 2nd Ave., Apt. C, Columbia, is charged with especially
aggravated sexual exploitation of a minor, promoting prostitution and solicitation to commit
statutory rape. She was arrested Dec. 9.
— Thompson advertised the juvenile’s services on the internet.
— This investigation coincided with the arrest of two men, Nathaniel and Tavoris Roberts, who
along with Patrick Bullock, Sherman Aiden and Johnny Turrentine, face federal charges for
allegedly running a prostitution ring out of Columbia.
— Thompson was released from custody after posting $40,000 bond
• November 14, 2010 – Nashville
— Reported on November 14, 2010, by Erin Quinn of The Tennessean
— Victim of sex trafficking at age 10, Christine, now 29, was not surprised when federal
investigators in Nashville announced that four teenage girls were rescued from a multistate
sex trafficking ring
— 58 pages of court documents on the case don't answer many questions about the four young
teenage girls who officials say were repeatedly sold for sex by Somali gang members in
Nashville motels and apartments
— The girls probably were first arrested on prostitution charges and taken to jail until
investigators could sort out the victims from their captors
• October 1, 2010 – Nashville
- Written October 1, 2010, by Deanna Lambert of Channel 4 News
- Tennessee authorities say that a Somali gang forces women into prostitution and then moves
them across state lines.
- The gang is based in Minnesota and they trafficked a 15 year old girl from Minnesota to
Tennessee.
- The girl has a long history as being a runaway, but the warrant spells out that she was also
being victimized by a group of Somalia men who were promoting her into prostitution.
• August 30, 2010 – Nashville*
- Reported August 31, 2010 by Nicole Young of The Tennessean.
- Tyree Walker, 36, was arrested in the parking lot of an Elm Hill Pike hotel after undercover
detectives responded to an Internet escort ad he placed on Backpage.com promoting two
17-year-old girls.
- After the teens agreed to perform sex acts for money, they were both taken into custody.
- Both girls, who are from Macon, Ga., and Norfolk, Va., are charged in Juvenile Court with
prostitution.
• June 24, 2010 – Memphis
— Reported June 24, 2010 by The Daily News Journal.
— Leonard Fox, 43, plead guilty to forcing girls, some as young as 13, to engage in commercial
sex acts for his financial benefit.
— Fox was sentenced to 25 years in federal prison for forcing young girls into child prostitution.
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