Clairton Man Pleads Guilty To Sex-Trafficking Ohio Runaways
PITTSBURGH (AP) - A western Pennsylvania man has pleaded guilty to sex trafficking four teenage runaways from Ohio who were found in the car he was riding in - along with 8,000 individual dose bags of heroin - during a traffic stop last year.
Forty-one-year-old Robert Middlebrook must return for sentencing before a federal judge on May 9, when he'll likely face an agreed-upon sentence of 12 years in prison. The judge must approve the sentence at that time.
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The Clairton man's co-defendant, 26-year-old Kiari Day, of Rankin, pleaded guilty in November to helping Middlebrook by teaching the girls how to interact with customers and helping post online prostitution ads. She'll be sentenced in December.
The girls, all 17 or 16, were runaways from the Canton-Akron area.
Middlebrook's defense attorney declined comment.
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