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3L Nabbed On Human Trafficking Charges

Massive online underage prostitution sting results in arrest of a law student.

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The third year of law school is notoriously boring, but as side projects for your final year go, human trafficking would be a poor choice. And yet that’s what may have happened down in Texas.

Yesterday, McLennan County sheriff’s deputies announced the arrest of 29 men after a three-week sting targeting online underage prostitution. Deputies posed as pimps, prostitutes, and young girls generally and arranged sales of underaged girls only to send SWAT team members as their ersatz Chris Hansen.

Among those arrested was a Baylor 3L named Aaron Watkins (screenshot here in case this disappears). According to LinkedIn, Aaron has a religious studies degree and cares about “Children” and “Economic Empowerment.” OK.

While the details of the case against Watkins aren’t profiled in media reports, it’s worth noting that many of the men arrested are charged with “online solicitation” and “prostitution under 18” while only a few — including Watkins — were tagged with the most serious charge: “conspiracy to commit human trafficking.” To get a sense of what those charges look like outside of a Taken movie, deputies described the case against another man accused of conspiracy to commit human trafficking:

Anthony Farrior, 27, a truck driver from Kentucky, was charged with three counts of conspiracy to commit human trafficking after [Detective Joseph] Scaramucci said he planned to take underage prostitutes to Eagle Pass in Maverick County in his 18-wheeler and sell them to other men, then switch them out for others on a trip back to Waco.

Farrior allegedly arranged to sleep with two young girls while at the Pilot Travel Center, or “Flying J,” truck stop, 2409 South New Road, in order to see which he would rather pimp out.

“He was going to sample the goods,” Scaramucci said.

The public details of others arrested in the sting aren’t any less disgusting.

According to the sheriff’s office website, Watkins is no longer in police custody.

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Perhaps he’s in the law library boning up on the penal code.

Details, names released in online sex sting [Waco Tribune]

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