WICHITA – A Kansas man has been sentenced for trafficking an underage girl in Wichita.
On June 5, a Sedgwick County judge sentenced James Sexton, 27, of Wichita, to 144 months in prison, according to the Sedgwick County District Attorney.
In February, Sexton was convicted of commercial sexual exploitation of a child.
In August of 2018, members of the Exploited and Missing Child Unit in Wichita were on special assignment targeting online escort ads in an attempt to recover juvenile victims of sex trafficking. An undercover officer called a phone number on one of the ads and set up a meeting at a hotel in northwest Wichita. Police observed a 15-year-old girl and a 22-year-old woman walk into the hotel.
The teenager was a runaway from another county.
After an exchange of money, detectives arrested Sexton, the man who drove them to the location.
The 22-year-old suspect, Kelly Holt of Wichita, was convicted of aggravated endangerment of a child and unlawful use of a communication facility. She is awaiting sentencing.