David Kaufman, Sex Trafficking, Massachusetts 2025

BOSTON – A superseding indictment was unsealed today in federal court in Boston charging two men with conspiring to engage in the sex trafficking of a minor victim.

David Kaufman, 44, was arrested on April 16, 2025, and has been detained in federal custody. Kaufman is charged with one count of knowingly persuading, inducing, enticing and coercing an individual to travel in interstate commerce to engage in prostitution and aiding and abetting, as well as sex trafficking of a minor.

The superseding indictment adds Darren Zaldivar, 19, of Ludlow, Mass., charging him with transporting an individual with intent the individual engage in prostitution and conspiring to engage in sex trafficking of a minor.

According to the detention brief previously filed, Kaufman had allegedly been victimizing minor males and young adults ranging in ages from 14-20 by paying the minors for Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) and coercing and enticing some of them to travel to his penthouse condominium at the Four Seasons in Baltimore, and elsewhere, to engage in sex acts with him, which he video recorded.

Zaldivar is alleged to have conspired with Kaufman in the sex trafficking of a minor victim in 2024. Zaldivar is also alleged to have transported the minor victim with the intent that the victim engage in commercial sex.

If convicted, Kaufman faces up to 20 years in prison for coercing a person to travel for purposes of prostitution and up to life in prison for sex trafficking a minor. Zaldivar faces up to 20 years in prison for transporting an individual with intent the individual engage in prostitution and up to life in prison for conspiring to engage in sex trafficking of a minor.

United States Attorney Leah B. Foley and Kimberly Milka, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Boston Division made the announcement today. Valuable assistance was provided by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the District of Maryland; the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Baltimore Field Office; and the Baltimore Police Department.

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