Dekalb County police arrest Eric Gibbons, 25, and Monica Daughtery for child trafficking
Investigators have located a missing and exploited teen from Texas in a DeKalb County hotel.
According to the DeKalb County Police Department, a female victim was found at the Extended Stay America on Peachtree Road on Tuesday. Police also found a second 17-year-old trafficking victim at the hotel.
Eric Gibbons, 25, and Monica Daughtery, 30, have been charged with trafficking of a person for sexual servitude.
”The recovery of these exploited victims is a demonstration of continual collaborative efforts by federal, state and local authorities to protect our children and to arrest those who prey on them, said DeKalb County Police Chief James Conroy.
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