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One of the co-creators of San Diego-based GirlsDoPorn.com pleaded guilty Tuesday to a federal count of conspiracy to commit sex trafficking.

R. Kelly has returned to the federal jail in downtown Chicago ahead of his trial on child pornography and obstruction-of-justice charges, just two weeks after the disgraced R&B star was sentenced in New York to 30 years in prison for racketeering and sex trafficking.

R&B star R. Kelly was sentenced to 30 years in prison Wednesday for using his superstardom to subject young fans — some just children — to systematic sexual abuse. The singer and songwriter, 55, was convicted of racketeering and sex trafficking last year at a trial that gave voice to accusers who had once wondered if their stories were being…

A San Diego man who pleaded guilty to a federal sex trafficking charge for recruiting and soliciting teenage girls and women to engage in prostitution was sentenced Monday to more than eight years in prison. Jonathan Madison pleaded guilty last year to advertising commercial sex acts with the victims and transporting women and girls to customers in California and Colorado…

Prince Andrew settled out of court Tuesday with a woman who claimed she was 17 years old when the royal sexually abused her.

Ahead of Super Bowl LVI between the LA Rams and the Cincinnati Bengals, NBCLX political editor Noah Pransky breaks down common myths about the Super Bowl. No, it’s not the major sex trafficking event, and no, it’s not a gold mine for host cities.

Heard the claims that the Super Bowl is the most watched sporting event in the world? It’s not. What about how Americans consume more food on Super Bowl Sunday than any other day of the year? They don’t. Turns out, there are a lot of things said about the Super Bowl that aren’t true. Let’s break down three of...

The judge who oversaw the federal sex trafficking trial of Ghislaine Maxwell says she wants to hear from both the prosecution and defense after the latter attorneys said they’d seek a new trial based on statements made by now two jurors who say they were sexually abused and some of their experiences came up at deliberations.

Ghislaine Maxwell, former British socialite and close associate of Jeffrey Epstein, was found guilty on Wednesday on five charges related to the sex trafficking and abuse of teenage girls.

Eight people were arrested last week during a five-day undercover sting operation targeting San Diego-area prostitution crimes, California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced Monday.

Apollo Carreon Quiboloy is accused of abusing women and underage girls who allegedly faced threats of abuse and “eternal damnation” unless they catered to him.

After R&B star R. Kelly was found guilty of nine federal counts of racketeering and sex trafficking, attorney Gloria Allred, who represented several of Kelly’s victims, spoke out about the heinous nature of his crimes, including knowingly spreading genital herpes and using child pornography to blackmail his victims into compliance.

A jury found R&B star R. Kelly guilty on Monday on all counts of racketeering and sex trafficking.

The jury of seven men and five women started to deliberate the 54-year-old singer’s case on Friday.

The third week of the R. Kelly sex-trafficking trial in New York City saw more accusers, including a man for the first time, making more disturbing allegations

The California Assembly Appropriations Committee decided Thursday the bill will go to the assembly floor for a full vote. NBC 7’s Priya Sridhar has more on what this means.

California’s current anti-loitering code has been on the books since 1995. It was meant to crack down on people engaging in sex work, but the author of the bill that would overturn it, State Senator Scott Wiener, says it has actually just led to discrimination in the transgender community.

NBC 7 San Diego has won the national Edward R. Murrow Award for Excellence in Innovation for its seven-part investigative documentary series about child sex trafficking and exploitation in San Diego County and beyond.

A Hollywood movie producer — who once won an award from a Christian film festival — used his production company as a front for a global prostitution ring, New York federal prosecutors said Thursday

A porn actor and producer who recruited young women under false pretenses to appear in videos for San Diego-based website GirlsDoPorn.com was sentenced Monday to 20 years in custody in connection with his pleas to federal sex-trafficking and conspiracy charges.