Domestic Sex Trafficking of Minors - Women's Funding Network

— Abdilahi and Yusuf have been charged with promoting the commercial sexual abuse of a
minor. Both remain jailed on $250,000 bail.
— Wight has been charged with commercial sexual abuse of a minor. Jail records show he was
released Jan. 5 after posting bond on $75,000 bail.
• December 30, 2010- Seattle
— Reported on December 30, 2010, by Tonya Mosley of KING 5 News
— Mother of teen forced into prostitution at age 13 speaks for the first time about her daughter’s
ordeal
— Last spring, LaTerra's daughter ran away from home. She says up until then, her daughter
was an honor student who loved hanging out with her family. Weeks before she ran away,
her behavior changed.
— In September, police called and told LaTerra her daughter had been found. She was living in
Tacoma where police say a pimp named Shadina Rice forced her and another teen into sex.
• December 27, 2010- Seattle
— Reported on December 27, 2010, by Levi Pulkkinen of SeattlePI.com
— A SeaTac pimp accused of keeping several teen girls as "slaves" while forcing them to sell
sex has been charged with pimping children.
— Prosecutors say Ronnie 28-year-old Leon Tramble, Jr. treated the girls as "slaves" while
making thousands of dollars a week by exploiting them on Seattle-area streets.
— Tramble is alleged to have personally sexually abused girls as young as 14 at his SeaTac
home while taking the girls around the Northwest.
— Several girls ranging from 14-17 have been victimized by Tramble
— Charged with two counts of promoting the commercial sexual abuse of a minor, Tramble is
currently jailed on $750,000 bail.
• December 22, 2010- Tukwila
— Reported on December 22, 2010, by Levi Pulkkinen of SeattlePI.com
— Roger Lee Owens, Jr., 38, is jailed and facing child prostitution charges after drugging and
pimping a 14-year old runaway in Tukwila
— King County prosecutors say Owens, 38, took the girl in and forced her to work as a
prostitute so he could buy cocaine and pay rent on a Tukwila motel room. He threatened her
with violence, according to police, and delivered on that threat at least once.
— Owens was arrested Dec. 15.
— Charged with promoting the commercial sexual abuse of a minor, Owens remains jailed. He
has not yet entered a plea.
• December 20, 2010- Seattle
— Reported on December 20, 2010, by Susan Kelleher of The Seattle Times
— Within months after she started prostituting herself at age 16, “Kelsey” Collins was picked up
by police in Portland, Ore., having been taken across the state line by her 36-year-old pimp.
— Police convinced the girl to tell her story to a federal grand jury and she vanished without a
trace within weeks of her testimony.
— In Seattle, she was arrested and booked as a prostitute and put in juvenile detention. In
Portland, police treated Kelsey as a runaway and victim. And at the federal level, before a
grand jury, Kelsey was a star witness — until she disappeared.
• December 26, 2010- Kent
— Reported on December 16, 2010, by Kirotv.com
— Police in Kent arrested a 28-year old man, suspected of running a child prostitution ring.
— Police say the man would befriend girls, develop a personal and romantic relationship with
them. He would then compel them to engage in prostitution for his personal gain.
— Kent detectives have been working on the case for three months, and have been able to
track the suspect's activities throughout the Northwest
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