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Virginia Man Targeting Drug-Addled Women For Prostitution Ring In DMV Region Arrested: Police Virginia Man Targeting Drug-Addled Women For Prostitution Ring In DMV Region Arrested: Police
Virginia Man Targeting Drug-Addled Women For Prostitution Ring In DMV Region Arrested: Police A Virginia man who courted women suffering from drug addictions to help run an East Coast prostitution ring has been arrested, federal authorities announced. Brian Lamont Turner, 42, was arrested in his Charlottesville home on Wednesday following an hours-long standoff with police, who ultimately arrested him and accused him of posting hundreds of commercial sex ads for women in various cities.  Officials say that Turner violated the Mann Act, "a federal law that criminalizes the transportation of any woman or girl for the purpose of prostitution." The women he allegedly exploited wer…

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R. Kelly Gets 30 Years Without Parole For Sex Trafficking R. Kelly Gets 30 Years Without Parole For Sex Trafficking
R. Kelly Gets 30 Years Without Parole For Sex Trafficking R&B singer R. Kelly is a "disgusting" child abuser who taught his victims that love was "enslavement and violence," said a federal judge in Brooklyn who sentenced him to 30 years in prison Wednesday for running a decades-long sex trafficking ring that included child victims. The “I Believe I Can Fly” singer raped and otherwise sexually abused victims "with regularity" for nearly 25 years, U.S. District Court Judge Ann Donnelly said. “This case is not about sex. It’s about violence and cruelty and control,” the judge told Kelly, who reportedly is now destitute after selling more tha…

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by Jerry DeMarco