Two teenagers from Dallas were arrested for child sex trafficking as part of a four-person scheme.
After receiving information about a missing child from Texas, Louisiana State Police located and rescued the missing juvenile in Gonzalez, Louisiana, over the weekend.
Four alleged traffickers were arrested as part of the investigation. La’Niyia Campbell, 18, of Dallas, Jayden Hodge, 19, of Dallas, Kiara Davis, 20, of Gonzales, Louisiana, and Antonio Jackson, 21, of Phoenix, Arizona, were all arrested and charged with trafficking children for sexual purposes. All were booked into the Ascension Parish Jail in Louisiana, per the Louisiana State Police.
The investigation was a joint effort by the Louisiana State Police-Special Victims Unit, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Texas Department of Public Safety, and the Gonzales Police Department.
The child was placed into the custody of the Department of Children and Family Services. The case remains under investigation.
Sex trafficking has ravaged parts of Dallas, especially in Northwest Dallas, as previously reported by The Dallas Express.
The illicit sex trade is plied in plain sight as johns drive up and down Harry Hines Boulevard, buying sexual acts from women while pimps keep an eye on their ‘business’ from a short distance away.
Traffickers are hard to catch, as they travel quickly throughout different cities to avoid arrest.
In 2022, a Dallas teen was trafficked from a Dallas Mavericks game at 15 years of age. Over the next eleven days, she was held in North Texas and raped by multiple men, then transported to Oklahoma City, where she was sex trafficked out of a hotel for more than a week.
After the teen was rescued, authorities arrested eight individuals, two of whom pleaded guilty to trafficking and child porn charges. The hotel was allegedly “known for pimps and prostitutes,” according to online guest reviews of the property.
The teen’s family is suing the extended-stay hotel in Oklahoma and the Texas companies that ran it, per DX.
“On one occasion, a hotel employee saw the 15-year-old victim crying in the lobby while two adult men escorted her to their room and yet did nothing,” the family’s attorney, Zeke Fortenberry, claimed in a news release. “Other times, men patrolled the hotel hallway with an AK-47 style assault rifle.”