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A bordello of sorts was uncovered where resident Leonarda Martinez, 53, allegedly charged men $400 to have sex with women, according to a Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office arrest report. But Martinez wasn’t booked with promoting prostitution, the standard state charge applied to those who pimp out sexual services.
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Neither Gaston nor Letten could say just how prolific trafficking is in the New Orleans area. But some cases have made it to the public eye. In May, the Orleans Criminal District Court oversaw what prosecutors believed to be the first conviction under the state’s five-year-old human trafficking statute. Ricky Darnell Womack pleaded guilty to forcing a 15-year-old runaway girl from Arkansas to work as a prostitute out of an eastern New Orleans motel.
In Pennslyvania, federal prosecutors convicted 16 men on charges of  recruiting girls as young as 12 into prostitution and transporting them to sell their services in there as well as Ohio, Michigan, Texas and Louisiana. Smith, who interviewed some of the young victims, said the girls were pimped out to relief workers who came to New Orleans to help rebuild.

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