APRIL RENEE LAWRENCE | ‘Basically, their children were the currency’: Couple repeatedly trafficked daughter to elderly man for $20 | The 14-year-old victim was dating the man’s son | ALS

April Lawrence and James Wilson from Anderson County, South Carolina, are accused of trafficking their 14-year-old daughter to a man in Greenville County. The couple allegedly found people who would pay them and used the teen as a form of currency. They reportedly took the child over county lines to a 67-year-old man in Greenville County. The teen told investigators that she did not want to go there anymore, but Wilson would continue taking her. The sheriff’s office said the couple was given $20 every time she was taken there. Deputies executed a search warrant on the couple’s Cash App and found that they made $1,300 to $1,400 in a month. Both Wilson and Lawrence were charged with human trafficking and are being held in the Anderson County Detention Center without bond. Another man, William Barendsen, took the couple up on their offer and was charged with criminal sexual conduct with a minor.

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April Lawrence and James Wilson from Anderson County, South Carolina have been charged with a serious crime. They are accused of trafficking their 14-year-old daughter. The investigation began in April and it was found that they were allegedly making a “concerted effort” to “find people that would give them money,” and their “children were the currency”.

They allegedly brought their daughter to a 67-year-old man in Greenville County whenever he asked. The parents allegedly made over $1,000 while trafficking their daughter. Wilson and Lawrence would drive their daughter over to the man’s house where the man at least once was on a dirt bike with his son—the 14-year-old victim’s daughter. The man would “kick his son off of the dirt bike and tell him to go inside”. The girl reportedly told detectives she didn’t want to go to the man’s home anymore, but her father made her. Both Lawrence and Wilson were booked into the Anderson County Jail on a charge of human trafficking, and they were both denied bond.

The investigation into April Lawrence and James Wilson began in April. The couple allegedly brought their 14-year-old daughter to a 67-year-old man in Greenville County whenever he asked. The man would reportedly send the parents a text message and $20 via Cash App each time. “The little girl told me that she didn’t want to go over there anymore, but her father would tell her she was going every time (the 67-year-old man) would text”: adding that every time the 67-year-0ld would text for the child to be brought over, he would send the victim’s parents $20. In total, the parents allegedly made over $1,200 while trafficking their daughter.

At least one more man took the couple up on their offer to traffic their daughter. That suspect, Willem Barendsen, was charged with one count of criminal sexual conduct with a minor.

VIDEO: James Wilson & April Lawrence repeatedly trafficked daughter to elderly man for $20 police say | https://youtu.be/CbVfYffT9uM

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