OAKLAND \u2014 A Richmond woman has been charged with human trafficking of a minor after two girls, aged 15 and 17, identified her as a woman who was coercing them into sex work along with a still-unidentified man, according to court records.<\/p>\n
Monica Jackson, 38, was charged with human trafficking, pimping a minor, and pandering, as part of a five-count felony complaint. She pleaded not guilty on Friday and has been released from jail while the case is pending, court records show.<\/p>\n
Police say that on June 4, a 17-year-old girl called police from a section of 16th Avenue in Oakland that is known for prostitution, and reported that she was being trafficked and needed help. Investigators identified her and a 15-year-old girl as victims of the same pimp. While they were interviewing both girls, Jackson allegedly showed up and spoke with police.<\/p>\n
Jackson \u201cadmitted involvement \u2026 but insisted that she thought (both girls) were just 19 years old,\u201d police said in court filings. Authorities believe Jackson was assisting a man, but he has not been identified or charged, court records show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OAKLAND \u2014 A Richmond woman has been charged with human trafficking of a minor after two girls, aged…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262560,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[861,862,143,863,145,12905,144,12906,142243],"class_list":["post-376252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-bay-area-crime","tag-california-crime","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-crime","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-human-trafficking","tag-oakland-news","tag-oakland-prostitution","tag-the-blade-oakland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}