SEX TRAFFICKING CONVICTIONS

Seattle Gang Dismantled

05/20/10

Our task force helped put 10 members of the West Side Street Mobb gang behind bars.

A young woman who was severely beaten by a Seattle gang member in his efforts to control her and to keep her making money for him through prostitution finally had enough—she reported the crime to local authorities.

That’s how our Pacific Northwest Innocence Lost Task Force got involved. From that initial complaint late in 2008, some 20 victims of sex trafficking—five of them juveniles—were rescued, and 10 members of the West Side Street Mobb gang are now behind bars.

“As a result of this case,â€