Sex Trafficking Leads to 30 Years in Prison for Atlanta Man

An Atlanta man will serve 30 years in prison after pleading guilty Wednesday to trafficking teenage girls in prostitution.

Khiry Price, 23, admitted in Cobb County Superior Court that he enticed three girls, ages 14, 15 and 16, to perform sex acts for money in December 2013 at a motel in Austell, according to a statement from Cobb District Attorney Vic Reynolds.

He pleaded guilty to 16 counts: three counts of trafficking a person for sexual servitude, one count of child molestation, one count of statutory rape, two counts of pimping a person under age 18, two counts of pimping a person under age 16, two counts of simple battery, three counts of interference with custody and two counts of enticing a child for indecent purposes.

Judge Reuben Green then sentenced Price to 50 years, with 30 years in prison and the rest on probation.

The case was jointly prosecuted by the Cobb District Attorney’s Office and the Georgia Attorney General’s Office. At Wednesday’s hearing, Assistant Attorney General Camila Wright read a victim impact statement from the mother of one victim.

The mother said that her daughter had lost part of her soul as a result of what she endured. “Children are not commodities to be bought and sold,” she wrote.

Along with the Cobb DA’s Office, the case was investigated by the FBI, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, the Fulton County DA’s Office, the Atlanta Police and the College Park Police. Price previously pleaded guilty in Fulton County to similar crimes, according to Reynolds.

“This case is an example of how the crime of human sex trafficking often cuts across jurisdictional boundaries, which necessitates communication and coordination between law enforcement agencies,” said Assistant District Attorney Chuck Boring, who prosecuted the case for the Cobb DA’s Office, in the statement.

“Having a resource like the Attorney General’s Office to aid in investigating and coordinating multi-jurisdictional trafficking prosecutions helps our counties track and prosecute offenders like Price, who might otherwise escape responsibility for their reprehensible acts,” Boring said.