Follow up report on a "forbidden topic" issue from last summer

In Killeen, we had an issue with a young lady who was a VP here and was posted on BP as well.

When the issue was brought to the attention of the mods as the time, actions were swiftly taken.

It may help some of you to know, that your information helped and proper info was passed to appropriate authorities with total anonymity to the ladies and gents who provided it.

I just came across the results, that occurred in my absence, as a result of the info passed along.

"A Killeen man who recruited young girls with family problems and then turned them into prostitutes was sentenced to
 40 years in federal prison Wednesday.

U.S. District Judge Walter S. Smith Jr. also fined Jerome Maurice Cole $5,000.


Cole, 27, pleaded guilty Nov. 29 to sex trafficking and will serve his time, according to the judge’s recommendation, in a maximum-security federal prison.

Cole’s case was brought to the U.S. Attorney’s Office by the Texas Attorney General’s Office task force on human trafficking, Assistant Attorney General Geoff Barr said Wednesday.

Dara Bowlin, a sergeant with the attorney general’s task force, testified that Cole recruited a xxxxx girl from Brownwood who had an unhappy home life and brought her back to live with him in a trailer near Fort Hood.

He placed seductive photos of her on an Internet site for escort services.

The girl told investigators she was forced to have 75 sexual encounters, including sex with Cole, before police rescued her and took her home.

Cole had at least three xxxxxx girls and a number of other women working as prostitutes for him at the time of his arrest in 
May 2012, Bowlin said.

Before sentencing, Cole told the judge he wanted to apologize to his victims, their families and his family, including his 3-year-old son, for “the shame my 
actions have brought about.”

In a statement read by Assistant U.S. Attorney Mary Kucera, one of his minor victims wrote that she has been hospitalized and treated at a long-term care facility for anxiety disorders and depression since returning home.