The verdict was returned late on July 18, , after a four-day trial. Pallozzi, Superintendent of the Maryland State Police. Attorney Robert K. Working to end human trafficking is a priority for the Maryland U. According to the evidence presented at his trial, Parks trafficked two vulnerable minor victimsβa year-old girl Girl 1 and a year-old girl Girl 2 βfor commercial sex.
According to trial testimony, Parks met Girl 1 online. During their communications Parks learned that she was hungry and had no real place to live, and he offered Girl 1 a place to stay. Parks sent a car to pick up Girl 1, and within a day, he caused advertisements to be posted on a website that marketed commercial sex workers. These advertisements contained photographs and descriptions of Girl 1 and offered Girl 1 for commercial sex acts. Parks stayed with Girl 1 in the motel room, along with another woman he was advertising on the Internet for commercial sex.
Parks would leave the room for short periods of time, when men would come to the room to have sex with Girl 1, and he would return to the room shortly after the men left the room. Parks paid for additional advertisements on the website offering Girl 1 for commercial sex on August 1, and August 2, Girl 1 did not get to keep the money that she was paid by the men who came to the room to have sex with her.
The evidence also proved that in November , Parks met Girl 2 online, and he learned that she had run away from her foster home. On November 16, , Parks paid a driver through an application on his cell phone to pick up Girl 2 and bring her to his home. Girl 2, who was 15 years old, told Parks that she was 17 years old, in foster care, and was in an unhappy situation.
Parks provided Girl 2 with marijuana and had sex with her. He talked to her about making money through prostitution, and he took her to the same motel in Baltimore where Parks had harbored Girl 1.
