A Jamaican man was convicted Tuesday of sex trafficking in Miami federal court in a case that involved him pimping out women in South Florida, the Middle East and Australia.
U.S. Attorney Wifredo Ferrer said the prosecution of Damion St. Patrick Baston was unique because it was the first time prosecutors used a recently enacted extraterritorial jurisdiction provision of anti-trafficking laws to charge someone for sex trafficking that occurred in another country.
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