FORCED SUBSTANCE ABUSER TO ENGAGE IN COMMERCIAL SEX ACTS
On April 22, 2024, RM (32) of Boston was sentenced to 30 years in prison (and a decade of supervised released) after a jury found him guilty of “sex trafficking a young woman through force, fraud and coercion and obstruction.”
RM allegedly exploited a 25-year-old Maine woman who was suffering from substance abuse. The lady was forced to engage in commercial sex acts. She was also reportedly berated, abused, humiliated and raped by him.
His co-defendant, SJ of Dorchester, Massachusetts, was sentenced to 80 months in prison (and five years of supervised release) for her role in the sex trafficking conspiracy.
In a written statement, Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, noted that “This significant sentence imposed by the court reflects the severity of the defendant’s exploitation of the victim over three days. He used drugs, threats, physical force and rape to force her to engage in commercial sex for his own profit …. These acts were odious and intolerable. They denied the victim’s basic humanity. The Justice Department will vigorously prosecute human trafficking crimes to hold offenders accountable and to seek justice for survivors of these heinous crimes.”
That’s what you get for playing in traffic.
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