A Colorado man who was convicted on multiple counts of human trafficking, child prostitution and sexual exploitation of a child – including pimping – has been strangled by the long arm of the law.
The 31-year-old scumbag Brock Franklin was the ringleader of a criminal gang who used social media to lure their victims, then abducted and drugged them – selling them as prostitutes to sexual deviates.
It was one of the most diabolical sex trafficking operations in Colorado history and last week, a judge in Arapaho County sentenced Franklin to a whopping 472-years in prison meaning that he could be a free man around Christmas of the year 2489 or so.
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Via Denver NBC affiliate 9 News “‘The tough ones are us women:’ Colorado pimp gets 472-year sentence”:
A man convicted of sexually exploiting women as a pimp will spend the rest of his life – and then some – in prison.
In a sentencing hearing Tuesday afternoon, Arapahoe County Judge Peter F. Michaelson sentenced the man found guilty of running a child prostitution ring to 472 years in prison.
That is more than four times the minimum required sentence – and the largest sentence brought down for a human trafficking case in the country.
Brock Franklin was indicted in 2015 by a grand jury for allegedly using drugs and violence to control young girls, often forcing them into lewd acts as part of a child sex trafficking ring.
Four others have already been sentenced for their involvement in the human trafficking ring.
Prosecutors said Franklin preyed on young women and girls who were vulnerable. In his trial, a jury heard from eight of the nine victims in the case.
“Damage isn’t lessened because of where someone came from or where someone did not come from,” an attorney for the Arapahoe County District Attorney’s Office said in court Tuesday.
In a packed courtroom Tuesday afternoon, prosecutors read two letters from Franklin’s victims.
“Every morning I wake up I have to remind myself the defendant will no longer be able to hurt me,” the first letter began.
The victim, identified only as “DY,” wrote to the court about the PTSD, anxiety, and depression she suffers because of Franklin’s actions.
“I began to doubt myself, thinking everything the defendant told me was true,” her letter read. “I am a mother and a soon-to-be wife and I am not all the defendant said I was or to become.”
Then, one of his victims spoke directly to the court – in person.
“I miss myself, my confidence, my laugh. I miss my happiness,” she said, as she described her three “long months” under Franklin, beginning in Jan. 2015.
She discussed her recurrent PTSD, anxiety and depression.
“The tough ones are us women,” she addressed the court. “The prison time [the defendant] will serve does not compare to the damage he has caused to these women or myself,”
“I forgive Brock Franklin, but only because the Good Lord says I must,” she said tearfully to the court.
The victim finished her impact statement by saying, “Today I let this demon go.”
In March of this year, Franklin went on trial for 34 counts including pimping a child, patronizing a child prostitute, kidnapping and assault.
He was found guilty on 30 counts including human trafficking, sexual exploitation of a child, child prostitution, kidnapping, pimping of a child, and racketeering.
He was acquitted of several charges including distributing marijuana and assault with a deadly weapon.
The lead investigator on Franklin’s case also spoke to the court.
The detective with the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office described the case as “emotional and hard” on everyone who touched it.
Now Mr. Franklin is likely to get a good deal of education in how a pimping operation is run from the other end.
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