Kansas man sentenced to prison for trafficking runaway girl
June 10, 2020
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A Wichita man was sentenced to 12 years in prison for the sex trafficking of a 15-year-old runaway girl, prosecutors said Tuesday.
Sedgwick County District Judge David Kaufman sentenced James Sexton, 27, on Friday. He was convicted in February of commercial sexual exploitation of a child.
The case stems from a special assignment in 2018 by members of the Exploited and Missing Child Unit in Wichita who were targeting online escort ads in an effort to recover juvenile victims of sex trafficking, the Sedgwick County district attorney's office said in a news release.
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