Sean Patrick Farrelly.
A federal judge in Jacksonville on Monday afternoon sentenced Sean Patrick Farrelly, the former Palm Coast resident and previously convicted felon, to 30 years in prison for having enticed with money, alcohol, drugs and gifts a girl to have sex with him between March 2018 and February 2019 in an L-Section house in Palm Coast and in a trailer. The girl was 16 and 17 at the time.
The federal charge is sex trafficking, but it is, in fact, a misnomer. The case has nothing to do with sex trafficking as it is generally understood–as a commercial enterprise that involved the actual trafficking and pimping of a child through such abusive and dangerous pipelines as prostitution rings, in which children are usually held captive or find themselves unable to free themselves of the abuse. There are no such cases in Flagler County.