A mother-son pair was arrested and charged with conspiracy to commit sex trafficking of children for allegedly abducting and pimping out two 13-year-old girls last summer, federal prosecutors said in court papers.
Reuben Gilliam and Daisy Pollard-Gilliam were arrested last month for their involvement in the kidnapping of the two teens, who were missing for six days in June after they disappeared on the street in Bell Gardens, prosecutors said.
The girls, referred to only as Victim 1 and Victim 2 in court papers, were snatched on the street by Gilliam and two other men who approached them in a car around 2:00 a.m. on June 3, prosecutors alleged.
One of the men hopped out of the car and told the girls to get in or else another man in the car would force them into the vehicle, said an FBI agent in an affidavit filed in the case.