A serial sex trafficker in Boston was sentenced to over 11 months in prison on Feb. 10 following over 15 years of exploitation in the state of Massachusetts.
The U.S. Department of Justice announced in a press release that Bruce Brown, 43, of Dorchester, Mass., was sentenced to 138 months in prison and five years of supervised release after conducting 15 years of sex trafficking in the Greater Boston Area.
“For more than 15 years, Brown preyed upon women and profited from his sex trafficking enterprise," U.S. Attorney Rachael Rollins said, according to the press release. "His exploitation and violence caused immeasurable harm and trauma. Many people assume that this kind of depravity doesn’t exist in our communities, but it does. Sex trafficking activity on the local level is a reality – and so is imprisonment."
After Brown was charged in February 2020, he attempted to obstruct justice and tamper with his victims’ testimony by directing co-conspirators to call victims and try to get them to alter or withdraw their testimony against him, according to the release.
Brown pleaded guilty on November 21, 2021, to sex trafficking of a minor and for transporting a minor for purposes of prostitution, according to the press release. He also faced two counts of conspiracy to commit sex trafficking by force, fraud and coercion, in addition to obstruction of justice and witness tampering.
