Sex Trafficking During Miami Super Bowl Sends CT Man To Prison

Miami FL

10 January, 2022

1:43 PM

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MIAMI, FL — A New Haven, Connecticut man who coerced two women and a girl into selling themselves for sex in Miami during Super Bowl LIV was sentenced to 25 years in prison, according to a Department of Justice news release. Edward Walker, 48, was sentenced Thursday in Fort Lauderdale following an eight-day trial in October, the DOJ said. Evidence presented during the trial showed that in January 2020, Walker brought two adult women and a 17-year-old girl to Miami from Connecticut to engage in commercial sex acts during the Super Bowl. While in Miami, Walker emotionally, psychologically and financially coerced the victims into soliciting customers and having sex with them in exchange for money, all of which Walker kept, according to the DOJ. Additional evidence showed that after the Super Bowl in Miami, he planned to take the victims to Chicago during the NBA All-Star Game, New Orleans during Mardi Gras, Las Vegas and other places to further sexually exploit them. The jury found Walker guilty of sex trafficking by force and coercion, sex trafficking of a minor by force and coercion, and transporting a person for sexual activity, the DOJ said. United States Senior District Court Judge James I. Cohn imposed the sentence, which also includes a supervised release term of 25 years following incarceration. Walker will be brought to Connecticut, where he will face charges in United States District Court for the District of Connecticut for the production of child pornography, the DOJ said.