Overview
- State prosecutors charged Keith B. Woodson on Thursday with multiple counts including first‑degree human trafficking, promoting prostitution, and aggravated assault based on a criminal complaint.
- Officials allege Woodson posted photos on illicit sex websites, solicited clients at local businesses, rented hotel rooms, collected payments, and bought supplies to arrange forced encounters.
- Prosecutors say one victim was made to see four to five clients daily, was denied food, and was threatened with harm to her and her family if she tried to leave.
- A second victim was allegedly lured after getting off a bus with promises of making $1,000 a day, then supplied with narcotics and physically abused, including being choked until she lost consciousness.
- Attorney General Jennifer Davenport framed the charges as part of intensified enforcement in South Jersey, following last week’s arrests of 13 people in a separate trafficking ring and signaling continued investigations and prosecutions.