2 arrested for trafficking teen girls after 17-year-old found in Fulton County hotel
In connection with the 2020 discovery of a 17-year-old girl in a hotel room, two more people are being prosecuted for human trafficking.
Denorris Hutchinson, 35, and Natasha Bridges, 34, were charged with trafficking in persons for sexual servitude, Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr revealed on Friday.
An adolescent girl who was being trafficked was saved from a Fulton County hotel during "Operation Not Forgotten" in 2020. Her disappearance from Kansas City, Missouri, has been reported.
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Since then, 13 people, including Hutchinson and Bridges, have been charged with trafficking the young woman.
“It’s been three years since the recovery of this 17-year-old victim, and we continue to identify and charge additional people who we allege were engaged in her trafficking. Nine of those defendants are already in prison,” Carr said.
Terry Florence was arrested in DeKalb County for the same case earlier this year. He also faces charges for trafficking two other people.
Ten others were arrested in Fulton County. Nine of them have since taken plea deals and are serving prison sentences.
Authorities discovered a 15-year-old girl who Hutchinson is also accused of trafficking during their investigation. They claim that he brought the woman for commercial sex, from which he made money.
Hutchinson is accused of smuggling people into sexual servitude on three separate occasions.
"Operation Not Forgotten" resulted in the safe location of 13 additional children and the rescue of 26 throughout the summer of 2020.
