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A Des Moines man has been indicted on eight charges of sex trafficking four Iowa women for prostitution in Illinois and North Dakota. If convicted, he would face a mandatory minimum of 15 years on each sex trafficking charge and up to 10 years on each transportation charge.

He responded to a website for prostitution in 2023 and exchanged sexually explicit text messages with a supposed 13 year old -- who actually was an undercover police officer.

Two people were arrested Thursday on human trafficking charges after police say they brought a minor from Dubuque to Cedar Rapids and forced her into prostitution.

A Cedar Rapids man is charged with attempted sex trafficking a child under the age of 14. Court documents don’t provide details of the incident and it’s unknown whether the child was from Iowa or another state. If convicted, he faces 15 years and possibly up to life in federal prison.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A teenage sex trafficking victim who fatally stabbed the man she accused of abusing her was

An 18-year-old sex trafficking victim who killed her rapist was being held in an Iowa jail Wednesday and could face a prison term after she walked away from a Des Moines women’s shelter where she was serving probation for a manslaughter conviction.

Prosecutors had called the probation sentence she was given in September merciful for a teen who endured horrible abuse, although some questioned the $150,000 restitution she was ordered to pay. A GoFundMe campaign raised over $560,000 to cover the restitution and pay for her other needs.

Donations are pouring in to help a 17-year-old sex trafficking victim who was ordered by a court to pay $150,000 to the family of a man she stabbed to death after he raped her.

A prosecutor rejected defense claims Thursday that the 2018 killing of University of Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts could be connected to sex trafficking and other abductions that happened in the rural area where she disappeared while out for a run.