Posted on 05/19/2016 9:45:19 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Ferguson, Mo., activist Charles Wade, who co-founded Operation Help or Hush, was arrested and charged with seven counts, including felonies for human trafficking, after an undercover cop responded to a Backpage.com ad for sex.
Ferguson, Mo., activist Charles Wade, who has been a prominent figure in the Black Lives Matter movement and is credited with co-founding the nonprofit Operation Help or Hush, was arrested in April and charged with human trafficking and prostitution.
According to the Daily Caller, Wade was arrested after an undercover officer answered a Backpage.com ad listing for a 23-year-old prostitute. When the officer arrived at the Howard Johnson in College Park, Md., on April 25, he learned that the girl was a 17-year-old who reportedly called Wade her "manager."
Wade, 33, has been charged with seven counts, including felonies for human trafficking. Wade was reportedly carrying three cellphones at the time of his arrest and used a passport to rent the room where the girl was staying, the Daily Caller reports.
"Someone that we had just started temporarily housing was involved in activities in the temporary housing we obtained for them outside of my knowledge that caused me to be arrested after they were as the person who booked, signed for, provided ID for, and paid for the room," Wade told the Daily Caller.
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Depends on what they charge.
Sadly, many of them literally still end up in shackles because they do so.
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