{"id":251860,"date":"2026-07-25T13:47:06","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T13:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/251860\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T13:47:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T13:47:06","slug":"pittsburgh-man-sentenced-to-decades-in-prison-for-child-sex-trafficking-exploitation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/251860\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh man sentenced to decades in prison for child sex trafficking, exploitation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">PITTSBURGH \u2014 A Pittsburgh man has been sentenced to decades in prison for child sex trafficking and exploitation. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/local\/2-pittsburgh-residents-accused-sexually-exploiting-child\/6VSOWT22LNAXLFOE7QPVNF27CA\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/local\/2-pittsburgh-residents-accused-sexually-exploiting-child\/6VSOWT22LNAXLFOE7QPVNF27CA\/\">James Clark<\/a>, 39, of Carrick, was sentenced Monday in federal court to 360 months in prison followed by 10 years of supervised release, according to the Department of Justice. He must also comply with the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Clark was previously convicted of one count of child sex trafficking and six counts of child sexual exploitation. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Prosecutors say Clark housed a runaway girl and took sexually explicit photos of her, also trafficking her to another person so she could stay at Clark\u2019s home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The case was part of the DOJ\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/psc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/psc\">Project Safe Childhood<\/a>, a nationwide initiative launched in May 2006 to fight child sexual abuse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">If you or someone you know is the victim of human trafficking, you can call the FBI, local law enforcement or the National Human Trafficking Resource Center (NHTRC) toll-free at 1-888-373-7888. You can also submit a tip to the NHTRC online by <a href=\"https:\/\/humantraffickinghotline.org\/en\/report-trafficking\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/humantraffickinghotline.org\/en\/report-trafficking\">clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH \u2014 A Pittsburgh man has been sentenced to decades in prison for child sex trafficking and exploitation.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214220,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[22087,3646,4738,9317,12499,13366,22071,22072,31,784,22073,8429,22074,22075,22076,22077,22078,22079,4394,15653,740,742,4751,22080,139,557,22081,73,75,74,16632,796,13559,13560,787,7363,3860,788,13471,22082,22083,22084,526,22085,22086,4758,109],"class_list":["post-251860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-afraid","tag-authority","tag-background","tag-barrier","tag-bars","tag-cell","tag-convict","tag-cover","tag-crime","tag-criminal","tag-escape","tag-free","tag-illegal","tag-illustrative","tag-imprisonment","tag-incarceration","tag-incidents","tag-iron","tag-jail","tag-judgment","tag-justice","tag-law","tag-legal","tag-modern","tag-news","tag-old","tag-penitentiary","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-press","tag-prison","tag-protect","tag-protection","tag-punishment","tag-safety","tag-security","tag-sentence","tag-steel","tag-stereotype","tag-symbolic","tag-term","tag-time","tag-trapped","tag-typical","tag-verdict","tag-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}