She was only fed occasionally, had no cell phone or identification, and was forced to have sex and turn her proceeds over, according to the Clayton County Sheriff’s Office.
But the unnamed girl is now back with her mother, and the four people accused of running a prostitution ring in hotels have been arrested, the Sheriff’s Office said Tuesday.
An undercover investigation into alleged prostitution led deputies to a Days Inn hotel on Adamson Parkway in Morrow last week. A suspected prostitute led deputies into a room with several people inside, including a sleeping 1-year-old child, the Sheriff’s Office said. It was the same room where additional sex acts were to take place, investigators determined.
Four people, including a juvenile boy, were allegedly running a prostitution ring out of various hotels, the Sheriff’s Office said in online Nixle alert.
“While the sex acts were taking place the group would hide in the bathroom, which is where the victim would take the money prior to performing the sex acts,” the Sheriff’s Office said.
The girl, whose age was not released, was taken to a hospital before being released to her mother through the Division of Family and Children Services.
Three suspects, Samtreshia Kiara Smith, 21, Gary Darrell Farrell, 19, and Twanecia Taquoyah Smith, 18, were arrested and charged with human trafficking, two counts of sexual exploitation of a minor, keeping a place of prostitution and deprivation of a minor. All three were being held without bond Tuesday afternoon at the Clayton County jail.
A fourth person, a juvenile, was charged with human trafficking and two counts of sexual exploitation of a minor and taken to a regional youth detention center.
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