WILMINGTON, N.C. (AP) - A man has been sentenced to more than 40 years in prison after being convicted of human trafficking in North Carolina.
Media outlets report that 39-year-old Roderick Jermaine Boykins of Wilmington was sentenced to 43 years in prison Wednesday on charges of trafficking a child victim, sexual servitude and promotion of prostitution.
Prosecutors said there were four victims, including one who was a juvenile at the time.
Prosecutors said Boykins recruited women for prostitution between November 2015 and December 2016 and then held the women in sexual slavery.
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