Tulsa, Oklahoma — Police arrest a man and woman for allegedly trafficking a 21-year-old female at a Super 8 motel. Officers said a woman called 911 to check the motel for her daughter, whom told her she was being prostituted.
TULSA, Okla. — An Oklahoma man made an appearance in federal court Friday for allegedly soliciting a woman to molest her 11-year-old child in exchange for help with living expenses. “This is another case which destroys the innocence of a child and touches the heart of every justice official involved in the investigation”, Tulsa Chief of Police Wendell Franklin said in a news release. “May the work performed by our agency and our federal partners—the FBI, Homeland Security Investigations, and U.S. Attorney’s Office—be feared by any criminal looking to exploit our innocent children.”
Investigators said Gary Ballard is accused of driving the woman to a gentleman’s club then beating her. They said Ballard also forced her to dance for money, then he took her money and wouldn’t allow her to leave or get in touch with her family.
According to court documents, FBI and OKCPD investigators determined that Rolando Cifuentes-Lopez of Oklahoma City, OK. owned the trailer where the two minors lived and threatened to evict their family if they did not comply with requests for sex. If found guilty of child sex trafficking, each defendant faces a mandatory punishment of at least ten years and up to life in prison.
Two Tulsa, OK brothers are in custody to face child human trafficking charges after the main defendant was picked up on Monday.
Jury found infamous Oklahoma City, Ok. pimp Germaine Coulter, 45 guilty on one count of child sex trafficking and one count of conspiracy to sex traffic a child. Coulter with his then-girlfriend Elizabeth Andrade conspired to recruit minors from an Edmond high school for commercial sex work.
He faces up to life in prison.
A 16-year-old girl said she considered 40-year-old Police Chief Stacy Burger to be a “father figure” and “role model” until he asked her for oral favors in exchange for cash. When she declined, he asked her if one of her underage friends would be interested in pleasuring him orally but the girl also denied that request, calling him “sick.” Burger is married and a father of four later sent her a text pleading “Please, don’t rat me out.”
Tulsa County, OK. prosecutors charged a man on allegations he solicited sex for money from someone he thought was a 14-YEAR-OLD girl.
Pages of documents and photos from a child sex crimes investigation involving a former state senator were submitted by prosecutors this week in response to leniency requests ahead of his upcoming sentencing.
In March of 2017, the Moore Police Department released a redacted report containing details of an incident at a motel between then-Sen. Ralph Shortey and a 17-year-old.
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