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Three San Diego Men Sentenced for Sex Trafficking

U.S. Attorney’s Office September 13, 2010
  • Southern District of California (619) 557-5610

United States Attorney Laura E. Duffy announced that Patrick Jones was sentenced today in federal court in San Diego by the Honorable Thomas J. Whelan to serve 180 months in custody and 10 years of supervised release following his release from prison based on Jones’ convictions for one count of sexual exploitation of a child and one count of sex trafficking on a minor, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 2251 and 1591. Jones was found guilty on May 7, 2010 after a three-day jury trial.

Two of Jones’ co-defendants, Dwayne Tousant and Dominique Willis, were also sentenced by Judge Whelan. Tousant was sentenced to serve 120 months in prison, and Willis was sentenced to serve 108 months in prison.

According to evidence presented at trial, Jones and three others picked up the 14-year-old female victim from a restaurant on El Cajon Boulevard in San Diego. They drove her to a motel in Oceanside, where they forced her to pose for sexually explicit photographs so that they could solicit “johns” on the Internet to engage in commercial sex acts with the child. Jones and his co-defendants were charged in April 2009 after the child was able to escape the motel room and run to a nearby convenience store to call 9-1-1.

This case is being brought as part of the Department of Justice Project Safe Childhood (PSC). For more information about PSC, please visit www.projectsafechildhood.gov.

DEFENDANTS Case Number: 09CR1250-W
Patrick Jones Age: 22 San Diego, California
Dwayne Tousant Age: 24 San Diego, California
Dominique Willis Age: 21 San Diego, California

SUMMARY OF CHARGES
Title 18, United States Code, Sections 2251(a) and (e)- Sexual Exploitation of a Child
Title 18, United States Code, Sections 1591(a) and (b) - Sex Trafficking of Children

AGENCIES
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Oceanside Police Department

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