Phoenix Man Sentenced To Over 100 Years For Child Sex Trafficking

Robert Hood
Robert Hood

PHOENIX – A Phoenix man, Robert Hood, will spend 108 years in prison for forcing a 16-year-old girl to engage in prostitution for six months. A jury found Hood guilty on 11 felony counts, including Child Sex Trafficking, Conspiracy, Money Laundering, and Sexual Exploitation of a Minor.

According to the Arizona Attorney General’s Office, Hood recruited his victim from the streets of Phoenix, in 2017, and forced her to engage in prostitution. He collected her prostitution money for his own benefit. Hood used his cell phone to record the victim in a sexually exploitative manner in an effort to maintain control over her. Detectives with the Phoenix Police Department’s Human Exploitation and Trafficking Unit (H.E.A.T) rescued the victim from a hotel. During interviews, the victim disclosed Hood had trafficked her for several months in 2017 and 2018.

Hood had two prior convictions of aggravated assault and possession of drugs.

If you are the victim of human trafficking, or if you believe someone is being held by a human trafficker, call the National Human Trafficking Resource Center hotline at 1-888-373-7888 or text HELP to: BeFree (233733). The National Human Trafficking Resource Center Hotline is a national, toll-free hotline available to answer calls from anywhere in the United States, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, in more than 200 languages.

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