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\"womanRodregiz Antwon Cole, 37, of Manning, South Carolina, was sentenced Thursday to 15 years in prison\u00a0 for sex trafficking a minor in Washington, D.C. in April 2019, officials stated.<\/span><\/p>\n

Cole committed these crimes while on sex offender registration status.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0 Cole pleaded guilty on May 20, 2021, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, to one count of sex trafficking of a minor and one count of commission of a crime against a minor victim while on sex offender registration status. <\/span><\/p>\n

He was sentenced by\u00a0 Colleen Kollar-Kotelly. Following completion of his prison term, Cole will be placed on a lifetime of supervised release.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 According to the government\u2019s evidence, the minor victim first encountered Cole in April 2019 through an online sexual solicitation advertisement on \u201cskipthegames.com\u201d when she was 17 years old and pregnant.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"When she told Cole that she was only 17 years old, he initially said he did not want her to engage in commercial sex acts for his financial benefit due to her age, but then changed his mind. <\/span><\/p>\n

Cole drove the minor victim, along with two other adult females who were working in his commercial sex enterprise, to the \u201cTrack\u201d in Washington, D.C. <\/span><\/p>\n

There, he had the minor victim engage in at least six commercial sex \u201cdates\u201d and took all of the proceeds from her.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Cole was arrested on April 5, 2019 following an investigation by the Metropolitan Police Department and the FBI Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking Task Force. <\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"When Cole was arrested, he was in possession of the cash earned by the minor victim and the other women working for him along with two cellular phones with communications about his commercial sex enterprise. He has remained in custody since his arrest. <\/span><\/p>\n

At the time of these offenses, Cole was required to register as a sex offender because of a prior conviction in 2018 in South Carolina. \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 This case was investigated by the FBI Washington Field Office\u2019s Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking Task Force.<\/span><\/p>\n

The task force is composed of FBI agents, along with other federal agents and detectives from northern Virginia and the District of Columbia. <\/span><\/p>\n

The task force is charged with investigating and bringing federal charges against individuals engaged in the exploitation of children and those engaged in human trafficking.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Trial Attorney Elizabeth Hutson of the Justice Department Criminal Division\u2019s Human Trafficking Prosecution Unit investigated and prosecuted the matter.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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