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(NewsNation) — A national assemblage this week convicted a Florida antheral of enactment trafficking astir a twelve girls and women, whom prosecutors accidental helium threatened, abused and required to person enactment with different men and himself.
Shannima Yuantrell Session faces a minimum of 15 years and a maximum of beingness successful situation connected 13 charges for sex trafficking. The 47-year-old from Lake Placid, Florida, is scheduled to beryllium sentenced Dec. 19.
The convictions stem from allegations that Session made women prosecute successful commercialized enactment acts betwixt July 2011 and July 2013, and past from February 2016 to February 2019, according to a Justice Department quality release.
Prosecutors said Session offered bare promises of morganatic enactment and lodging assistance to radical who were struggling with unstable surviving conditions. At times, helium prevented them from eating if they didn’t obey his demands. He besides often required them to prosecute successful enactment acts with him aft making them execute commercialized enactment acts with arsenic galore arsenic 18 men.
Prosecutors additionally presented grounds astatine proceedings alleging Session bushed and choked the women, held their heads underwater successful a adjacent water and threatened to drown them, and utilized a firearm to endanger and power the women.
“The suspect utilized despicable and horrific means to terrify and coerce astir a twelve women and girls to prosecute successful commercialized sex,” said Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division. “The Justice Department is committed to protecting susceptible victims from specified cruel exploitation.”
