Kissimmee man charged with sex trafficking, sexual assault of a minor in New York WFTV [Video]

KISSIMMEE, Fla. — A Central Florida man was arrested Wednesday, accused by the federal government of violently forcing women to work in prostitution for his own financial gain.

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An indictment unsealed Thursday in Brooklyn Thursday charges 41-year-old Joel Forney of Kissimmee with the sex trafficking of multiple women and coercion and enticement of a minor.

According to court documents filed in the Eastern District of New York, the allegations against Forney date back to at least the summer of 2016 and continued through at least 2018, during which time investigators say Forney “regularly” trafficked women in Brooklyn and at least three other states through “force, fraud, and coercion.”

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Forney is also accused of trafficking women to work in prostitution in New York at a known open-air sex trafficking market along a stretch of Pennsylvania Ave. in Brooklyn known …