For Trafficking Teen, Gwynn Oak Man Sentenced to Almost 6 Years

A Baltimore County man was sentenced to nearly six years in prison for sex trafficking of a minor who was under 14 years old, according to the U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland.

Jonathan M. Went, 31, of Gwynn Oak and Massachusetts, was sentenced to 71 months in prison and 15 years of supervised release for conspiring to commit sex trafficking of a 13-year-old child.

Another man used alcohol and drugs to capture the girl in New York City on March 5, 2014, then he took her to White Marsh by bus and Went's apartment in Gwynn Oak by taxi, the U.S. Attorney reported.

The captor—Rayvon O. Archibald, 26, of Boston, sentenced to 14 years in federal prison—told Went the girl was coming, and they advertised her on a commercial sex site with Went's phone number.

By midnight, at least one person had sex with her for money, according to the U.S. Attorney. Another individual demanded a refund because he said the girl was too young. When the girl and another woman gave the customer his money back, Archibald slapped them both, the U.S. Attorney said.

On March 6, 2014, the girl's mother reported her missing after she called, using Went's phone, to tell her mother she could not leave.

On March 7, 2014, the girl took Went's phone to a nearby intersection and called 911, and when police arrived, she directed them to his apartment, where he and Archibald and a woman were, the U.S. Attorney reported.

According to court records, Went lived in the 6700 block of Wilmont Drive.

The FBI, Baltimore County Police Department, Baltimore County State's Attorney's Office and Maryland State Police partnered in the investigation.

Report suspected human trafficking to the National Human Trafficking Resource Center.

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