INDIANAPOLIS — A Cincinnati man has been sentenced to 13.5 years in prison after pleading guilty to trafficking two minors from Indiana.
According to previous reports , Payton Brown was arrested in February 2023 and charged with two felony counts of sex trafficking of minors following an investigation that launched in October 2022.
Cincinnati man pleads guilty to sex trafficking Indiana minors
Authorities later discovered two 16-year-olds in Brown’s home after they were reported to be missing from Indiana.
The United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Ohio previously reported that Brown met the victim on the online dating app 3Fun. Authorities went on to state that they uncovered evidence showing that the victim had sexual encounters with multiple men in exchange for money, with Brown pocketing all of the proceeds.
All of this was reportedly done after Brown uploaded images of the minor to an unspecified website between June and October 2022 advertising for “sexual encounters.”