{"id":446371,"date":"2026-08-28T18:48:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T18:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/446371\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T18:48:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T18:48:12","slug":"fresno-man-sentenced-for-human-trafficking-and-sexually-assaulting-3-minors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/446371\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresno man sentenced for human trafficking and sexually assaulting 3 minors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; A Fresno man has been sentenced to 62 years to life in prison for human trafficking and sexually assaulting three minors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">38-year-old Brandon Antonio Correia sex trafficked, sexually assaulted and forced the young girls into prostitution.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">They were just 14 and 17 years old.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Correia also approached a third victim near her high school bus stop and attempted to recruit her.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">When that victim refused, she was raped.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Through an investigation, hundreds of calls and messages between Correia and the victims were uncovered, including prices and where he directed them to meet customers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Correia has an extensive criminal history, including carjacking, evading police, and being a felon in possession of a firearm.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KFSN-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; A Fresno man has been sentenced to 62 years to life in prison for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":446372,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[176829,176828,112,114,113,3650,2897,2531,294],"class_list":["post-446371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-176829","tag-brandon-correia","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-human-trafficking","tag-sentencing","tag-sexual-assault","tag-timely"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446371","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=446371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}