Baltimore , Maryland β U. District Judge Thomas E. A federal jury convicted Parks late on July 18, , after a four-day trial. As a result of his conviction, upon his release from prison, Parks will be required to register as a sex offender in the places where he resides, where he is an employee, and where he is a student, under the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act SORNA. Pallozzi, Superintendent of the Maryland State Police. Children cannot consent to have sex for money and the sex trafficking of children will not be tolerated in Maryland.
Attorney Robert K. 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 to bring her to a motel in Woodlawn, Maryland, 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 at a motel in Baltimore, along with another woman he was advertising on the Internet for commercial sex. He also had sex with Girl 1 in the motel room. 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, The evidence also proved that in November , Parks met Girl 2 online, and he learned that she had run away from her foster home.
