{"id":74743,"date":"2017-11-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-24T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.noticel.com\/english\/20171124\/colorado-man-receives-longest-human-trafficking-sentence-in-u-s-history\/"},"modified":"2025-07-16T18:20:43","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T18:20:43","slug":"colorado-man-receives-longest-human-trafficking-sentence-in-u-s-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noticel.com\/en\/mas\/otros\/20171124\/colorado-man-receives-longest-human-trafficking-sentence-in-u-s-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado man receives longest human trafficking sentence in U.S. history"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 31 year old was found guilty of 30 counts<\/i><\/p>\n

A convicted child sex trafficker from Colorado was sentenced to 472 years in prison on Tuesday, the longest sentence for a human trafficking case in U.S. history.<\/p>\n

Brock Franklin, 31, was found guilty of 30 counts, including soliciting for child prostitution, sexual assault and kidnapping by an Arapahoe County jury in March.<\/p>\n

Franklin recruited young girls and women, and forced them into prostitution. There was physical abuse if they didn’t cooperate.<\/p>\n

He was one of seven people indicted by a statewide grand jury in 2015. Franklin was considered the leader of the human trafficking ring.<\/p>\n

Three girls and five women cooperated with prosecutors during the case, which was brought under Colorado’s Organized Crime Control Act.<\/p>\n

‘I can’t begin to even explain what he did to my life,’ one of the victims, Breahannah Leary, said.<\/p>\n

Franklin walked into the courtroom calm and collected. He sat quietly as a judge read his fate. One victim stood up and addressed the court.<\/p>

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‘Reading it today, and speaking and actually saying how I felt, and him having hearing and have to sit there and listen and listen to me, that brought me so much joy and that’s why I came today,’ Leary said.<\/p>\n

Sex trafficking continues to be a problem.<\/p>\n

‘A 400-year sentence sends a strong message across the country that we’re not going to tolerate this kind of violence to women and vulnerable populations,’ Janet Drake with the Colorado Attorney General’s Office said.<\/p>\n

The indictment shows drugs were used to control the women and girls. They had to meet a daily quota. Franklin forced them to have sex with him, then he’d sell their services online.<\/p>\n

The crimes happened at hotels across the metro area.<\/p>\n

The defense asked for the minimum sentence of 96 years. The victims and prosecution asked for more — and that’s what Franklin got.<\/p>\n

‘He deserves every single minute in those walls,’ Leary said.<\/p>\n

Authorities believe more women were victimized.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The 31 year old was found guilty of 30 counts A convicted child sex trafficker from Colorado was sentenced to 472 years in prison on Tuesday, the longest sentence for a human trafficking case in U.S. history. Brock Franklin, 31, was found guilty of 30 counts, including soliciting for child prostitution, sexual assault and kidnapping […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":466780,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-otros"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noticel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noticel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noticel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noticel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74743"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/noticel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":466782,"href":"https:\/\/noticel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74743\/revisions\/466782"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noticel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noticel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noticel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noticel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}