Multi-state human trafficker sentenced to minimum of 30 years in prison
32-year-old Deondre Inkton pled guilty on February 5 to charges including human trafficking, promoting prostitution, sexual battery, and money laundering.
32-year-old Deondre Inkton of Cleveland pled guilty on February 5 to charges including human trafficking, promoting prostitution, sexual battery, and money laundering.
Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost and Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Michael O'Malley have announced that he has been sentenced to 30 to 37.5 years in prison.
"My thanks to the Northeast Ohio Human Trafficking Task Force and Prosecutor O'Malley for putting this thug behind bars," says Yost.
The Northeast Ohio Human Trafficking Task Force led an investigation that tied Inkton to over 4,000 sex advertisements in Ohio and eleven other states with over half of the ads focused in the Ohio area.
Detectives on the Task Force determined that Inkton physically and sexually abused women to force them into prostitution, then profited of their exploitation for over ten years which Yost describes this as, "textbook human trafficking."
"My thanks to the Northwest Ohio human Trafficking Task Force and Prosecutor O'Malley for putting this thug behind bars," Yost says.
