Police officers in Virginia protected a sex trafficking ring in exchange for free sexual encounters with trafficked women.
A federal lawsuit filed against Fairfax County, Virginia, police officers alleges that they protected an extraordinary sex trafficking ring for years in exchange for sexual favors from the victims.
The lawsuit was filed by civil rights attorney Victor Glasberg on behalf of a Costa Rican woman identified as "Jane Doe."
In exchange for free sex with the trafficked women, the police officers of the county allegedly allowed the sex trafficking ring to operate.
According to the complaint, which names five defendants including two supervisory officers, a police captain, a police lieutenant, and the chief of police, the officers would alert the trafficking ring to suspend its online advertisements prior to police sting operations.
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According to the complaint, some of the defendants "secured sexual services from trafficked women and may have also extorted money from the ring's leadership."
Officers allegedly sabotaged detective William Woolf's investigation into the human trafficking ring and were hostile towards him as he honed in on the operation.
According to the lawsuit, Woolf's direct supervisor, identified as Michael Barbazette, referred to him as a "social worker" and imposed strict restrictions on him, such as requiring daily reports and prohibiting overtime work.
In 2016, a police lieutenant interviewed Woolf for an investigation. During the interview, the lieutenant warned Woolf that if he continued his investigation, "he would be labeled a liar and his career at the Fairfax County Police Department and in law enforcement would be over."
In the lawsuit, the lieutenant was quoted as telling Woolf, "If you keep your mouth shut and don't utter the words 'human trafficking' again, everything will disappear, everything will go away, and all the paperwork will disappear."
"Police officials routinely scoffed at the notion that trafficked women were victims, insisting that they were merely prostitutes engaging in illegal commercial activity," the lawsuit stated.
Glasberg stated that he spent months attempting to negotiate with the county to avoid filing a lawsuit because he believes that a trial will be emotionally taxing for his client.
"I pleaded with the county to settle the matter without litigation. I said, "Let's have some accountability here," Glasberg told the Associated Press. "They ultimately told me to go pound sand,"
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According to the lawsuit, the Costa Rican woman was recruited in her home country to work as an escort in the United States.
The woman stated that her job as an escort required her to go on dates with wealthy men.
However, when the woman arrived in the United States in late 2010, Hazel Sanchez, the ringleader of the sex trafficking operation, allegedly confiscated her passport and forced her to engage in commercial sex.
Sanchez allegedly threatened to harm the woman's family in Costa Rica or tell them she was a prostitute when she said she wanted to leave.
Prosecutors in Sanchez's case revealed that women in Sanchez's operation were required to have sex with as many as seventeen customers per day and were instructed to comply with even the most humiliating or dangerous sex requests.
Sanchez pleaded guilty to operating a prostitution ring in federal court and was sentenced to more than two years in prison.
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