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Ohio-2/09:
- Xenia man was arrested for purchasing sex online from an underage girl
- Four incidents were reported over a 3 month period of time
- Though the exact age of the girl was not stated in the news release, it was noted that the girl was younger than 16
Ohio-2/09:
- As part of it’s “Operation Cross Country”, the FBI freed 45 underage prostitutes across the country
- Two cities included in the operation were Toledo and Cleveland
Ohio 4/09:
- 14 year old girl found dancing topless in Akron
Ohio 4/09:
- A 16 year old girl was lured from her Ohio home to Pennsylvania to work as a prostitute
Columbus- 9/08:
- William Green and Bridgette Baugh arrested and charged with transporting women across state lines to engage in prostitution
- One of the women being transported told officials that her mother had been selling her to Green for sex since she was 14 years old
- Green told an undercover officer that he could supply underage girls—as young as 6 years old for sex
Columbus- 12/08:
- A Columbus couple with the last names of Townsend and Shine were arrested and plead guilty to taking a 14 year old girl to Florida to sell her in prostitution
Columbus-12/08:
- Arrested Christopher Johnson, an academic advisor at OSU for running a brothel off of Craig’s list in Columbus in the Brewery District.
- Among those he was selling for sex was Vanise Dunn, a sex abuse case worker for Franklin County
- Also implicated was Rusty Blades, a real estate agent in Columbus
- One of the girls they were selling was 17 years old
Columbus-1/09:
- Robert McFadden, former head of the Ohio Faith Based Initiative office was arrested for promoting the prostitution of a 17 year old girl through an online site and through the brothel run by Christopher Johnson
