PHILADELPHIA – First Assistant United States Attorney
Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced that Collin Cowell, a/k/a “Tyson,” 29,
was sentenced to 324 months’ incarceration and 20 years’ supervised release by
United States District Court Judge J. Curtis Joyner for his scheme to organize
and manage a trafficking venture with ‘employees’ whom he trained to sell young
girls into sexual conduct. The defendant
is also required to register as a sex offender.
The defendant was convicted in March 2018 of sex trafficking
and aiding and abetting the sex trafficking of three minor children, two of
whom were only 15 years old, in Philadelphia and elsewhere. He was also convicted of the distribution of
child pornography for posting a sexually explicit image of two of the young
girls on backpage.com, a website Cowell and his co-defendants used to advertise
the minors for commercial sex acts with sex buyers, which financially benefited
him directly. The defendant not only led
the trafficking operation, he trained those working under him to engage in sex
trafficking.
“Cowell’s crimes were devastating to his minor victims,”
said First Assistant U.S. Attorney Williams. “Today’s sentence of almost three
decades incarceration reflects the seriousness of his crimes and the
irrevocable damage he caused, all in pursuit of financial gain. We will
continue to work collectively to investigate these destructive crimes against
vulnerable children.”
The case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of
Investigation, and is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney
Melanie Babb Wilmoth
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