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.
The platform has since been shut down by the FBI. Seven individuals connected to the prostitution-promoting website were charged in a 93-count federal indictment in 2018. At the time, it was the second-largest classified service after Craigslist….