“This wasn’t charged as a human trafficking case, but probably could have been, given the facts.”
U.S. District Judge Gregory Van Tatenhove at Serafin Bayona‘s May 2025 sentencing hearing
For at least two years, a forced labor operation ran out of ordinary-looking homes in Lexington neighborhoods—a brick ranch on Ascot Park, a townhouse on Hanna Place where 14 people slept, a trailer in the Imperial Park off Loudon Avenue. The victims worked at factories in Georgetown and Frankfort that you’ve probably driven past. They were paid. They were not free to leave…