Domestic Sex Trafficking of Minors - Women's Funding Network

— Marvin Leigh Madkins, 29, of Virginia was sentenced to 50 years in prison for Sex Trafficking
of Minors and Transporting Minors Across State Lines for Prostitution
— Madkins forced two young girls to engage in prostitution in Virginia and then later in Florida.
— Customers were obtained using multiple methods including Internet postings on Craigslist.
Washington
• July 22, 2011- Seattle*
— Reported on July 22, 2011, by Jennifer Sullivan of The Seattle Times
— Shacon Barbee made thousands of dollars running an "organized criminal enterprise" in
which he beat and intimidated girls and young women into working as prostitutes, according
to criminal charges filed Friday by King County prosecutors.
— Barbee, 32, was charged Friday with leading organized crime, three counts of promoting
commercial sexual abuse of a minor, two counts of promoting prostitution and tampering with
a witness
— In the latest charges, he is accused of forcing three young women into working as prostitutes
and then pocketing all of the money they earned. On most days, each woman earned more
than $1,000 working as a prostitute, prosecutors say.
— Barbee advertised the women and girls on Backpage.com
• June 21, 2011- Seattle*
— Reported on June 21, 2011, by Levi Pulkkinen of SeattlePI.com
— A 19-year-old Seattle woman is facing a child prostitution charge following allegations that
she pimped a girl two years her junior.
— King County prosecutors contend Micayla Michelle Fourhorns – herself convicted of
prostitution as a minor – helped the 17-year-old post advertisements on Backpage.com and
set up “dates” for the girl.
— Fourhorns faces seven to 10 years in prison if convicted as charged.
— Fourhorns, who was convicted of prostitution in 2009, has been charged with promoting the
commercial sexual abuse of a minor. She remains jailed on $100,000 bail.
• June 2, 2011- Kennewick*
— Reported on June 3, 2011, by Kristin M. Kraemer of Tri-City Herald
— Chad Andrew Crithfield pleaded innocent Wednesday to allegations that he paid money to
have sex with two underage girls after answering an ad on Backpage.com.
— Previously reported on May 24, 2011, by The News Tribune: A 19-year-old woman is
accused of forcing underage girls into prostitution and profiting from her online
Backpage.com scheme, which has landed her, her husband and four alleged customers in
court. All six people have been charged in Benton County Superior Court: Salsbury, of
Kennewick, with promoting commercial sexual abuse of a minor, a felony; Stanley Lynn
Salsbury Jr., 20, of Kennewick, with second-degree promoting prostitution, a felony; Chad
Andrew Crithfield, 40, of Richland, on three counts of fourth-degree assault with sexual
motivation, a gross misdemeanor; Francisco Meza III, 31, of Sunnyside, with commercial sex
abuse of a minor, a felony; Mason Cameron Harris, 24, of Kennewick with prostitution, a
misdemeanor, and third-degree theft, a gross misdemeanor; Armand Robert Vasquez, 67, of
Phoenix, Ariz., with commercial sex abuse of a minor, a felony.
• April 28, 2011- Seattle*
— Reported on April 28, 2011, by Levi Pulkkinen of Seattle Pi
— A Shoreline man convicted of pimping a 17 year old teen girl out of a downtown Seattle hotel
has been sentenced to 20 years in prison.
— Anthony Terry, 31, was among the first defendants to be sentenced under stiffer penalties for
pimping children recently enacted by the state Legislature.
— Terry was found guilty of two counts of promoting the sexual abuse of a child, as well as
promoting prostitution and witness tampering. He was sentenced Thursday to the shortest
sentence within the standard sentencing range; prosecutors had asked that he receive a 26-
year prison term.
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