The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Anderson repeatedly denied being involved in the prostitution of Torres , who testified Monday that she worked as a prostitute for Anderson before and after the May 21 and 22, , incidents involving the year-old.
Many of those messages were shown to the jury. Anderson, whose trial started last week in Linn County District Court, is charged with human trafficking a minor, third-degree sexual abuse, conspiracy to commit a forcible felony, pimping and two counts of sexual exploitation of a minor. This is the first trial in Iowa under a law that increases the penalty for human trafficking of a minor to a class A felony punishable by life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Torres also is charged with human trafficking a minor, second-degree sexual abuse, conspiracy to commit a forcible felony and prostitution.
Her trial is April Anderson would ask for a photo of the customer, and some were shown to the jury. The teen testified Anderson forced her to have sex with men in exchange for money, which he kept, and that he had sexually abused her.
Investigators did have access to a program which provides a data report that can bypass a passcode to provide information from the phone. Moore, in reviewing the cell data, also said there were over 5, instances where Anderson used a website associated with prostitution where someone can respond to ads for sex, create a post and access a post.
