Delaware Man Sentenced to 21 Years for Sex Trafficking Minors in Mid-Atlantic Region: DOJ

Delaware Man Sentenced to 21 Years for Sex Trafficking Minors in Mid-Atlantic Region: DOJ
Children are silhouetted in front of posters of the Justice and Protection against Sex Trafficking of Children and Young People campaign in 2010. Jay Directo/AFP/Getty Images
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A Delaware man was sentenced to 21 years in prison on Thursday for sex trafficking minors and young adults throughout the mid-Atlantic region, including southeastern Pennsylvania and Delaware.

Anthony Jones, 38, of Wilmington, Delaware, was convicted in April 2019 following a 14-day trial, according to a June 2 press release by the Justice Department. He was found guilty of “of conspiracy to engage in sex trafficking of minors by force, fraud or coercion, and of sex trafficking three minors by force, fraud or coercion” following an investigation that began in 2016 when police rescued minors advertised on a sex-ad platform.

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