3 guilty, 6 acquitted in Minnesota-to-Tennessee Somali girl sex ring [View all]
[div class="excerpt" style="border-left: 1px solid #bfbfbf; border-top: 1px solid #bfbfbf; border-right: 1px solid #bfbfbf; border-radius: 0.3077em 0.3077em 0em 0em; box-shadow: 2px 2px 6px #bfbfbf;"]3 guilty, 6 acquitted in Minn.-to-Tenn. Somali girl sex ring[div class="excerpt" style="border-left: 1px solid #bfbfbf; border-bottom: 1px solid #bfbfbf; border-right: 1px solid #bfbfbf; border-radius: 0em 0em 0.3077em 0.3077em; background-color: #f4f4f4; box-shadow: 2px 2px 6px #bfbfbf;"]A federal jury has convicted three men but acquitted five others and one woman of involvement in the sex trafficking of Somali girls in Minnesota and Tennessee.
The nine are among 30 people indicted for allegedly trafficking or conspiring to traffic juveniles in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, Nashville, Tenn., and Columbus, Ohio. The other 21, including two women, may face trial in the future.
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Prosecutors accused the nine of belonging to gangs mostly run by Somali refugees. Six are of Somali descent. Kayachith is U.S. born and of Laotian descent.
A Somali identified only as Jane Doe No. 2 testified that gang members forced her into prostitution when she was 12 years old. Fahra's lawyer claimed that Jane Doe No. 2 was a runaway who was an adult, and was fed information from a St. Paul, Minn., police investigator.
More at the link. Fucked up stuff. I keep forgetting just how big this country is and how many dark corners it has.
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