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Feds: Reading Woman Gets 15 Years In Prison For Sex Trafficking Girls Ages 15, 17 Feds: Reading Woman Gets 15 Years In Prison For Sex Trafficking Girls Ages 15, 17
Feds: Reading Woman Gets 15 Years In Prison For Sex Trafficking Girls Ages 15, 17 A Reading woman was sentenced to 15 years behind bars for sexually trafficking two teen girls in 2017, federal authorities announced Friday. Melissa Madera, 27, forced the 15- and 17-year-old girls into commercial sex and compensated the teens with Ecstasy and cocaine to ensure their compliance, according to Acting United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams. Madera had a sexually explicit image of one of the girls and used it on a commercial sex trafficking website, advertising the teen for sex acts at Berks County hotel locations such as the Quality Inn in Wyomissing…

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