A Dallas area sex trafficker was sentenced today to 11 years in federal prison and ordered to pay his victim nearly $333,000, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox.
Gregory Bowden, aka “G," pleaded guilty to a racketeering charge in January.
In plea papers, Mr. Bowden admitted he recruited his 19-year-old victim, identified in court documents by her initials “R.R.," in 2014.
He advertised her services on Backpage.com and trafficked her across Texas, from Odessa to Euless to Corpus Christi, using violence to force her to engage in commercial sex acts while he kept the proceeds.
On Friday, U.S. District Judge Sidney A. Fitzwater sentenced Mr. Bowden to 11 years behind bars and ordered him to pay $332,990 in restitution to R.R.
Homeland Security Investigations and the Corpus Christi Police Department conducted the investigation. Assistant U.S. Attorney Cara Foos Pierce prosecuted the case.
Anyone with information pertaining to possible human trafficking, please call the National Human Trafficking Hotline, live 24/7, at 1-888-373-7888.
Source: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the United States Attorneys
