Fall River Woman Pleads Guilty to Leading Sex-Trafficking Ring Involving Minors
The plea sets up a 15 to 18 year recommendation with restitution, leaving the sentence to the judge.
Overview
- Parker pleaded guilty in federal court to conspiracy, two counts of sex trafficking by force, fraud, or coercion, and one count of sex trafficking a minor, with sentencing to follow under a 15-year mandatory minimum.
- Prosecutors say she forced an adult and two minors into commercial sex using beatings, threats, sleep deprivation, starvation, manufactured debts, control of alcohol, and a threat to take the adult victim’s 3-year-old child.
- Authorities say she and a minor accomplice recruited two juveniles with false promises of easy money, then harbored them in a house and a Somerset, Massachusetts, hotel while taking all of their earnings.
- The scheme ended after one minor called her social worker for help, which prompted law enforcement to intervene and arrest Parker at the hotel.
- A plea filing says prosecutors will seek 15 to 18 years in prison, $20,000 in restitution, and five years of supervised release, and four co-defendants have already been sentenced in related cases.