A Baltimore lady who police claimed to be the” First Lady” is accused of running an alleged sex-trafficking organization in Baltimore that reportedly recruited women from Hagerstown and demanded they put on sexual acts in exchange for drugs in motels across Maryland.
Kenika D. Leach, 33, faces 135 legal expenses in Washington County, including , sexual trafficking , by force or fraud, receiving a profit from coerced labour and crime. The Maryland Attorney General’s Office is prosecuting the situation.
According to the authorities, Leach was the head of the” Pussy Kat Klub,” which trafficked a hundred people between 2019 and 2021. Leach and another assassins found victims in Hagerstown, where the team also sold medication, according to charging files.
According to investigators, Leach do” die” the women by keeping them from using drugs and then pressuring them to conduct sexy commercials to pay off their “debt” as a result. According to the charging documents, patients told police that Leach may seize their phones and car keys and threaten to harm them if they failed to pay back their “debt”; they also allegedly told the police.
” Many of the women were particularly vulnerable to exploitation due to drug addiction and/or homelessness”, the indictment says.
In a statement of charges request filed in March, only the patients ‘ names are used to identify them. One person “described the group’s use of her energetic drug addiction to control her and pressure her to participate in commercial sex acts by confronting her with the choice of following Leach’s orders or being denied drugs, leading to unpleasant removal symptoms,” according to authorities.
Leach is being held without bond, court records show. Her attorney did not respond to a request for comment.
According to police, the investigation into Leach began in December 2021 when one of the women who had been coerced into having sex with someone went to Mercy Medical Center in Baltimore for pregnancy complications. A man she identified as” Uncle Joseph” who would not leave the hospital with the woman was present.
When police interviewed the woman, she reported that she met Leach in Hagerstown during a period of homelessness, investigators wrote. Leach allegedly transported the woman from Hagerstown to the Baltimore area, where she claimed Leach physically and psychologically abused her and paid her money with drugs for sex acts she had performed for money.
Leach is accused of using physical violence to control the women, telling them to “get on the wall” and cover their faces so that the beating would n’t have an impact on their appearance. Indictment against her. Unnamed men who are part of the plot allegedly helped recruit women by entering romantic relationships before handing the women to Leach.
Leach had the women provide sexual photos that she uploaded to various sex work websites, then organized “dates” with the men who responded to the advertisements, according to the indictment. Investigators discovered online communications between Leach and the men where they negotiated sex contracts and terms, as well as Cash App and other online financial transactions that appeared to be connected to the “dates.”
According to the indictment, men frequently pay Leach directly for the sex acts, and then Leach gives the women “one and ones,” or daily rations of drugs. Between July 2020 and December 2021, Leach allegedly used her Cash App account to cash out tens of thousands of dollars, according to the police.
The organization set up appointments at inexpensive hotels in Anne Arundel, Baltimore and Washington counties, including in Hagerstown, Linthicum Heights, Pikesville and Windsor Mill, investigators wrote. The investigation included the Baltimore Police Department, the Attorney General’s Organized Crime Unit, Maryland State Police, the Washington County Sheriff’s Office, Hagerstown Police Department and the U. S. Department of Homeland Security’s investigative arm.
According to the charging documents, police repeatedly used facial recognition software during the investigation to identify potential victims.
Leach was detained in January on unrelated warrants and given an interview about the sex-trafficking organization, according to police. According to police, she claimed to have found women on Jonathan Street in Hagerstown, a street known for prostitution and drugs.
Leach largely admitted to the scheme, according to police, even though she claimed to have intended to “take the women off the street.” According to police, she acknowledged that she had provided the women with drugs and that she had “helped” them organize meetings with male customers for sex work. A woman who owed a drug debt was also abducted and assaulted by Leach and a co-conspirator, according to the indictment.
Leach told police that she and her co- conspirators identify as members of the Bloods, a street gang, and said she was” O. G.”, or “original gangster”, indicating a high rank in the gang, investigators wrote.
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