A man arrested for pimping a 17-year-old girl at a motel in Wheat Ridge during a coordinated, nationwide human trafficking operation last June, has pleaded guilty.
Bobby James Doss, 30, pleaded guilty to pimping of a child in Jefferson County court on Wednesday.
Doss sold the girl out of a motel near Interstate 70 and Kipling Street in Wheat Ridge.
Investigators found suggestive photos of the teen, dressed in lingerie, that had been posted on a website advertising sexual encounters.
He was arrested as part of
Working with metro Denver law enforcement agencies and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, federal agents in Colorado arrested 11 pimps and rescued 19 children, during the sting.
The children were among 168 recovered in 106 cities throughout the country. The state’s talley was the largest number of juveniles recovered in any city involved in the sting.
A total of 150 pimps nationwide were swept up in the sting.
Local authorities also arrested more than two dozen johns who are accused of soliciting children for sex, online or otherwise.
The conviction of Doss, is one of the first to come out of the Jefferson County District Attorney’s Office, according to DA’s spokeswoman Pam Russell.
Doss, whose sentencing is scheduled for May 27, faces up to 12 years in prison.
Tom McGhee: 303-954-1671, tmcghee@denverpost.com or twitter.com/dpmcghee
