Child Prostitution Ring Busted

(Oklahoma City, OK) Yesterday, federal law enforcement agents identified 19 individuals and charged them with child prostitution, sex trafficking of children, and pimping.

Pimps allegedly transported girls as young as 13 from Oklahoma to cities in Texas, Florida, Colorado, Pennsylvania and Arkansas for prostitution, said U.S. Attorney Robert McCampbell.

"The prospect of a 13-year-old prostituting is not a hypothetical," McCampbell said. "It's been happening here in Oklahoma City."

McCampbell said pimps recruited young girls, many of whom were runaways, and then controlled them through violence, threats and intimidation.

Only scum would commit these crimes against children.