Columbia Man Gets 9 Years For Human Trafficking Case

ELLICOTT CITY, Md. (AP/WJZ) — A Columbia antheral was sentenced Thursday to 9 years successful situation for enactment crimes against a minor, prosecutors said.

Timothy Ford, 40, was sentenced to 25 years with each but 9 years suspended for a 2019 incidental successful Columbia, the Howard County State’s Attorney Office announced successful a quality release. Ford pleaded blameworthy past twelvemonth to quality trafficking and filming a kid engaged successful a enactment act.

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The unfortunate was panhandling erstwhile Ford approached and asked if helium was looking for work. Once successful the car, Ford told him helium could gain hundreds of dollars if helium engaged successful intersexual acts with different people. Instead, the unfortunate said Ford took him to his location and sexually assaulted him, prosecutors said.

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Investigators with Howard County Police identified Ford arsenic the fishy and arrested him astir a week later. Ford was charged successful November 2019.

As portion of his sentencing, Ford indispensable implicit a psycho-sexual valuation and treatment, enactment offender treatment, person nary interaction with the victim, person nary unsupervised interaction with minors and indispensable registry arsenic a Tier II enactment offender.

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