Xavier Lee, Sex Trafficking of a Child, Maryland 2023

Baltimore, Maryland – On January 17, 2023, U.S. District Judge Ellen L. Hollander sentenced Xavier Lee, a/k/a “X,” age 44, of Elkton, Maryland, to 150 months in federal prison, followed by 25 years of supervised release, for sex trafficking of a minor.

Lee was found guilty of operating an illicit prostitution business for financial gain, including operating a website where he posted advertisements of women whom he made available for commercial sexual acts with paying customers. The website was seized by the FBI, in conjunction with the United States Attorney’s Office and the Maryland State Police.

According to his plea agreement, for the past decade Lee has operated an illicit prostitution business. For a time, Lee also operated a different website, where he offered a subscription pornographic service to paying customers.

As detailed in the plea agreement, Lee admitted that he had sexual contact with a minor victim, beginning when the victim was 14 years old. Lee recorded his sexual contact with the minor victim when she was 15 and 16 years old. Investigators recovered eight separate videos from Lee’s electronic devices, each of which had been recorded by Lee and each of which documented the sexual abuse of the minor victim.

The case was investigated by the FBI-led Maryland Child Exploitation Task Force, which was created to combat child prostitution, with members from ten state and federal law enforcement agencies. The Task Force coordinates with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and the Maryland State Police Child Recovery Unit to identify missing children being advertised online for prostitution.

Lee was ordered to pay restitution of $15,600 to a minor victim. Upon his release from prison, Lee will be required to register as a sex offender in the places where he resides, where he is an employee, and where he is a student, under the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA).

The sentence was announced by United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Erek L. Barron; Special Agent in Charge Thomas J. Sobocinski of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Baltimore Field Office; Lt. Colonel Dalaine Brady, Acting Superintendent of the Maryland State Police; Chief Carolyn Rogers of the Elkton Police Department; Anne Arundel County Police Chief Amal E. Awad; and Cecil County State’s Attorney James Dellmyer.

Source: https://www.justice.gov/usao-md/pr/cecil-county-man-sentenced-more-12-years-federal-prison-sex-trafficking-child