The Butler County Sheriff’s Office said seven men have been arrested in an investigation into human trafficking.
The Sheriff’s Office worked with Andover police and Homeland Security Investigations for an operation that was conducted last Friday and Saturday, March 21st and 22nd. Working with a local advocacy group, ICT SOS, “they met with potential victims of trafficking and offered paths to survivorship to ten people who were engaged in commercial sex work during the course of the operation. One suspect was identified as a sex trafficker during this advocacy initiative, located nearby, and arrested for promoting the sale of sexual relations, a felony. This operation also identified and arrested six men who agreed to purchase sexual relations from a minor child in Butler County. These men have been arrested and booked into the Butler County jail on a variety of felony charges.”
The men range in age from 22 to 39. One has been charged with promoting the sale of sexual relations, and the others have been charged with aggravated human trafficking, commercial sexual exploitation of a child, indecent solicitation of a child, and other counts.
