Jacksonville child trafficking

More: Jacksonville private school teacher arrested in sexual-abuse case involving a student. More: Couple jailed on multiple child-porn charges; thousands of inappropriate images found. The indictment states that the couple conspired to entice, harbor and solicit a girl into a commercial sex act between November and early December of , knowing that she was under At the same time, Samuel Templeman knowingly enticed, transported and maintained that girl, knowing that she was under 18 and would be made to engage in a commercial sex act, the indictment said.

The seven-page indictment also charges that Deborah Templeman had cellphone video in December of showing a child engaging in sexually explicit conduct. Samuel Templeman was arrested on Dec. Around that time, a pimp began asking the child victim to engage in various sexual acts in exchange for drugs, according to the plea agreements. The child was then placed in foster care, from which investigators say the child ran away. A month later, Samuel Templeman received a sizable inheritance, which the Templemans used to lure the child back.

By mid-October , court documents reveal the Templemans had spent all the money, primarily on drugs for Samuel Templeman and the victim. According to federal investigators, once the inheritance was gone, the couple again began sex trafficking the child.

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