Three People Charged in Conspiracy to Commit Sex Trafficking of Minors and Related Charges

An indictment was unsealed today in the District of Delaware charging Jamar Geeter, 39, of San Francisco, California, Kalvin Carter Jr., 44, of Waldorf, Maryland, and Jada Hasty, 29, of Coatesville, Pennsylvania, with conspiracy to commit sex trafficking of a minor by force, fraud, and coercion, sex trafficking, and coercion and enticement of a minor. Geeter and Hasty are also charged with producing child sexual abuse material (CSAM).

"These three individuals are alleged to have exploited and abused four victims - including three children - for their financial gain," said Assistant Attorney General A. Tysen Duva of the Justice Department's Criminal Division. "Human trafficking is a serious crime that strips people of their dignity and safety. Anyone who engages in this heinous conduct will be investigated and prosecuted."

"Human-trafficking schemes don't stop at state lines, and neither does our work to investigate them," said U.S. Attorney Benjamin L. Wallace for the District of Delaware. "Alongside the Criminal Division and the FBI, my office will pursue anyone charged with exploiting minors in Delaware, no matter where the perpetrators reside."

"According to court documents, Jamar Geeter, already a convicted sex trafficker, continued directing abuse from behind bars with Jada Hasty and Kalvin Carter Jr. as his willing accomplices," said Special Agent in Charge Jimmy Paul of FBI Baltimore. "I am proud of the work done by our agents, analysts and victim specialists who handled this case with urgency and care. Their investigation spanned coast- to-coast, rescuing three children and one woman from the clutches of human trafficking and guaranteeing their alleged abusers will feel the full weight of the federal justice system."

According to court documents, Geeter is currently serving a 97-year sentence in California for unrelated state sex trafficking convictions. It is alleged that Geeter used contraband cell phones to engage in some of the alleged criminal conduct while incarcerated.

It is also alleged that the defendants conspired to compel three minors and one adult to engage in commercial sex acts in Delaware and elsewhere. Geeter and Hasty recruited, enticed, harbored, transported, provided, obtained, and maintained two minors knowing or in reckless disregard of the fact that they were under the age of 18 and would be caused to engage in commercial sex acts. Geeter and Hasty also used facilities of interstate commerce, including cell phones and the internet, to induce and entice three minors to engage in prostitution. Geeter and Hasty produced CSAM images of two of the minor victims as well. The defendants involved in the scheme used force, threats of force, fraud, or coercion to compel the victims to engage in commercial sex acts.

All three defendants are charged with conspiracy to traffic a minor and by force, fraud, and coercion and sex trafficking by force, fraud, or coercion. Geeter and Hasty are also charged with sex trafficking of a minor and by force, fraud, or coercion, coercion and enticement of a minor, and production of CSAM materials. Geeter is charged with additional counts of production and receipt of CSAM materials. If convicted, all three defendants face a minimum penalty of 15 years in prison and a maximum penalty of life in prison on the sex trafficking by force, fraud, and coercion charges.

In addition, Geeter and Hasty face a minimum penalty of 15 years in prison and a maximum penalty of life in prison for sex trafficking of a minor charges and coercion and enticement of a minor. Geeter faces a minimum penalty of 25 years in prison and a maximum penalty of 50 years in prison while Hasty faces a minimum penalty of 15 years in prison and a maximum penalty of 30 years in prison on the CSAM charges.

The FBI's Delaware Violent Crime and Safe Streets Task Force and Delaware State Police are investigating the case.

Trial Attorney Nicole Raspa of the Criminal Division's Human Rights and Special Prosecutions Section and Assistant U.S. Attorney Claudia Pare for the District of Delaware are prosecuting the case.

Anyone who has information about human trafficking should report that information to the National Human Trafficking Hotline toll-free at 1-888-373-7888, which is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. For more information about human trafficking, please visit www.humantraffickinghotline.orgLinks to other government and non-government sites will typically appear with the "external link" icon to indicate that you are leaving the Department of Justice website when you click the link.. Information on the Department of Justice's efforts to combat human trafficking can be found at www.justice.gov/humantrafficking.

An indictment is merely an allegation. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.