Travis C. Brown, Sex Trafficking a Child, Virginia 2023

NORFOLK, Va. – A South Carolina man has been sentenced to prison for his role in a conspiracy to engage in sex trafficking of a child. Travis C. Brown, 25, of Columbia, South Carolina, was sentenced to 126 months in prison for his crime, which was committed in Virginia Beach, Virginia.

Brown pleaded guilty on June 7, 2023, according to court documents. In March 2016, the Virginia Beach Police Department discovered a minor female who was being prostituted out of a hotel in Virginia Beach by Brown and a co-conspirator. Brown met the minor female through some friends at a hotel room party during which she was supplied with alcohol, marijuana, and the drug ‘molly.’

Two days after meeting her, Brown and his co-conspirator bought the girl lingerie and took her to another hotel where they posed her and took photographs of her to post Internet advertisements for commercial sex acts. Brown then arranged appointments for her, set the prices for her acts, provided condoms, monitored the progress of her appointments by text message, and collected the proceeds she earned.

After a tip from the management at the hotel where the girl was taking appointments and another source, the Virginia Beach Police Department rescued the girl and arrested Brown.

Brown’s sentence includes 10 years of supervised release and he will be required to register as a sex offender upon release from prison. The case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney V. Kathleen Dougherty.

The sentencing was announced by U.S. District Judge Mark S. Davis. Brown was sentenced on an unknown date in 2023, although the court documents state that he pleaded guilty on June 7, 2023.

According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia, the case is part of an ongoing effort to combat human trafficking in the Eastern District of Virginia. The office has prosecuted numerous cases involving human trafficking in recent years.

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