(WTAQ-WLUK) — A man was sentenced for sex trafficking two 15-year-olds from Oshkosh and Green Bay.
Jaron Jay Jackson, 36, was sentenced to 20 years in prison, followed by 10 years of supervised release.
According to court documents, Jackson, who lived in the Milwaukee area, was released from the Wisconsin prison system on extended supervision and absconded to Illinois, where he began sex trafficking females.
Officials say Jackson enticed two 15-year-old runaways from Oshkosh and Green Bay to join him in Chicago-area hotels. Soon after they arrived, Jackson posted sexually provocative pictures of the minor victims as advertisements on sex-trafficking websites. Jackson then directed the minor victims and an adult female victim to engage in commercial sexual acts with clients in Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, and Minnesota.
Jackson also repeatedly engaged in sexual activity with one minor victim and attempted to do so with the second minor victim, who contacted family members to return home to Wisconsin.
Jackson also recorded videos of a minor engaging in sexual activity with him, which officers recovered from his cell phone when they arrested him after he arrived in Wisconsin via Amtrak from Illinois.
In sentencing Jackson, Judge William Griesbach emphasized the severity of Jackson’s criminal conduct in targeting and exploiting minors, his aggravated criminal history, as well as the need for just punishment, to protect the public from Jackson, and to deter others from committing such offenses.
