Staten Island pimp and Crips gang member lured 14-year-old into prostitution through Instagram, planned breast implants to make her look older, feds say



A federal indictment accused an alleged Crips gang member of luring a 14-year-old girl through Instagram into prostitution and other heinous crimes.

The Eastern New York District of the U.S. Attorney's Office documented the unsealing of the indictment against Justin Dixon on Tuesday.

Investigators alleged that the 32-year-old contacted a 14-year-old girl through Instagram and manipulated her into forced prostitution along with many other females. The criminal complaint said he took her phone and told her she'd have to earn it back by having sex with paid customers.

He is accused of making her consume pills that would help her gain weight in order to make her appear older.

“Dixon constantly overfed Jane Doe and consistently told her that she needed to eat more, in order to look older than her current age,” assistant U.S. attorney Lorena Michelen wrote.

“The defendant also told Jane Doe that he was arranging a trip to Florida with Jane Doe and that he wanted to arrange plastic surgery for Jane Doe, including breast implants, in order to make her appear older than her current age," she added.

Prosecutors said Dixon would threaten the females with violence if they didn't serve him at a residence in Staten Island where they were forced to be nude at all times while they cooked and cleaned for him.

He allegedly nicknamed the 14-year-old girl "tiny" because of her small frame.

Police arrested Dixon at the Staten Island residence on Jan. 26. He has a criminal record going back to 2016.

Dixon was charged with sex trafficking, coercion and enticement of a minor, sexual exploitation of a minor, and felon in possession. If convicted, he faces a minimum sentence of 15 years in prison and a maximum of life in prison.

Experts warn parents to monitor their interactions on social media and elsewhere on the internet as sexual predators regularly try to lure children through popular online platforms.

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Police rescue 14-year-old at Walmart from 3 men who allegedly forced her into prostitution after she went missing



A missing 14-year-old girl was rescued from three men suspected of sex trafficking her over nearly two weeks in Gwinnett County in Georgia.

Lawrenceville Police said they were alerted to the presence of a "distraught" child at the Walmart on Collins Hill Road on Wednesday evening, according to WSB-TV.

Police said they discovered the girl had been reported missing from Cobb County, and they arrested three men who were with her.

They believe that the men forced her into prostitution at an apartment on Maddox Street.

The three suspects were booked into jail without bond. The girl has been returned to Cobb County to receive emotional and physical assistance over her horrific ordeal.

Experts say that human traffickers often manipulate their victims to protect the perpetrators when police officers become suspicious.

“They don’t cry out for help,” said Camila Zolfaghari, executive director at Street Grace, a group that helps human trafficking victims.

“Usually, they try to protect their trafficker because their traffickers told them, ‘Hey, if you tell them what’s going on, you’re going to get in trouble,’” she explained.

In a similar case from 2022, a 15-year-old went missing when she went to the bathroom at a Dallas Mavericks basketball game at the American Airlines Center. Police were unable to find a trace of the girl until the parents discovered photographs of the girl in nude online advertisements selling sex.

Police were able to rescue the girl from a room at an Extended Stay America hotel more than 200 miles away. The parents were outraged at the initial lack of interest from the police, and they filed a lawsuit against the department as well as the stadium center.

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