Georgia – A man from Conyers is going to prison for trafficking a missing adolescent and two adult women in metro Atlanta. This is a grim milestone in a complicated human trafficking investigation that has already resulted in in the apprehension of more than a dozen people.
Earlier this week, Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr said that Terry Florence, 34, has been sentenced to 40 years in prison, with half of that time to be served in prison and the other half on probation under tight restrictions. Florence is now a convicted sex offender and will have to register as one for the rest of his life. A DeKalb County Superior Court Judge gave the sentence following a long investigation and trial that has gradually presented how far and how severely human trafficking networks hurt people in Georgia.
In August 2020, police found a 17-year-old girl who had been missing from Kansas City, Missouri, at a hotel in Fulton County. This started the case against Florence. Her recovery was part of Operation “Not Forgotten,” a big effort by the U.S. Marshals Service to save kids in danger throughout the state. During that operation alone, authorities found 26 missing children and safely located 13 others, while arresting nine individuals linked to child exploitation…