Leah B. Foley United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts | Department of Justice
Christy Parker, also known as "Lula," pleaded guilty on April 1 in federal court in Boston to charges related to a sex trafficking conspiracy that involved two minors and one adult. U.S. District Court Judge Angel Kelley scheduled her sentencing for July 15, 2026.
Parker, age 28 and from Fall River, was arrested in June 2024 along with five others. She has remained in federal custody since her arrest. The case highlights ongoing concerns about human trafficking and the exploitation of vulnerable individuals.
According to court documents, between January and August 2023, Parker used physical violence, threats, intimidation, sleep deprivation, starvation and other methods to force at least one adult victim and two minor victims into repeated commercial sex acts around Fall River. In early 2023, she coerced an adult victim through beatings and threats as well as by withholding alcohol after supplying it and threatening the loss of the victim’s child.
Later that year, Parker worked with a minor accomplice to recruit two additional minor victims with false promises of easy money. The victims were kept in a house and a Somerset hotel where they were forced into commercial sex over several weeks during July and August 2023. Parker physically abused at least one minor victim while threatening both minors; she also deprived them of sleep so they could engage in more commercial sex acts and confiscated all their earnings.
The scheme ended when one of the minor victims contacted her social worker for help. Law enforcement responded quickly after being alerted by the social worker; Parker was arrested at the Somerset hotel where she had been harboring the victims.
Parker is now the fifth defendant convicted in this case. Previous convictions include Tyreik Reid and Cory Primo—each sentenced to over five years in prison—and Avvani Jeffers along with Tre’sean Reid who were sentenced earlier this year following guilty pleas last fall. Another co-defendant awaits trial after pleading not guilty.
United States Attorney Leah B. Foley said that valuable assistance came from multiple agencies including Homeland Security Investigations New England office as well as local authorities such as Bristol County District Attorney’s Office and Somerset Police Department.
