Milwaukee area man sentenced 20-years in prison for sex trafficking minors and transporting child pornography

MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) -- 36-year-old Jaron Jay Jackson was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison for sex trafficking minors and transporting child pornography. His imprisonment was announced on Thursday, Nov. 9. 

Jackson's imprisonment is followed by 10 years of supervised release, and 25-years of sex offender registration. Jackson pled guilty to commercially trafficking two 15-year-old victims and transporting child pornography, according to a US Department of Justice release. 

According to court documents, Jackson was released from the Wisconsin prison system on extended supervision and absconded to Illinois, where he began sex trafficking females. 

Jackson enticed two 15-year-old runaways from Oshkosh and Green Bay. He told them to join him in Chicago-area hotels. After they arrived, Jackson took sexually provocative pictures of the minor victims as advertisements on sex trafficking websites. Jackson directed the minor victims and an adult female victim to engage in sexual acts with clients, according to the release. 

Jackson repeatedly engaged in sexual activity with one of the minor victims and attempted to with the second victim. The second victim contacted family members in Wisconsin to return home. Jackson recorded videos of the minor engaging in sexual activity with him. Officers recovered the videos from his cellphone when they arrested him after he arrived in Wisconsin via Amtrak from Illinois. 

The investigation was conducted by the Oshkosh Police Department, the Wisconsin Division of Criminal Investigation, along with the Milwaukee Police Department and the FBI. 





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