Court of Colorado sentenced a man to a record – 472 years of imprisonment for trafficking in children for sexual exploitation.
31-year-old Brock Franklin was convicted of 30 felonies, including sex trafficking of minors and adults, as well as inciting children to prostitution.
Brock Franklin gets nation’s longest human-trafficking sentence. Prosecuted with assistance from @FBIDenver & @COAttnyGeneral Release: https://t.co/aJbXOTZj1f pic.twitter.com/7ZLGLUFd5w
— DA Office of the 18th (@DA18th) November 22, 2017
«Brock Franklin got the longest sentence in the world for human trafficking».
The accused was the leader of the gang, whose members via Facebook to hire women and girls. In person they drugged the victims with drugs, and then forced them to have sex with clients who responded to the announcement posted on the website Backpage.com.
«It’s hard for me to even explain what he did with my life – said one of the victims in an interview with local media. He deserves every minute in these walls.»
Another victim admitted that Franklin was using the GPS on your mobile phone to monitor its location, and repeatedly choked her and beaten with a pistol and forced to have sex against her will.
The gang was about 7 people, four of whom are already serving their term. Conclusion Franklin called the longest in U.S. history in a case related to trafficking.
According to the International labour organization in the world more than 40 million people are victims of traffickers. Four million of them are forced into prostitution.
