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A jury has rejected a woman’s allegations that a former police chief in Virginia and three other officers protected a prostitution ring that she said trafficked her.
A Costa Rican woman sex worker, Jane Doe, alleged in a lawsuit that four Fairfax, Virginia officers protected a local sex ring and paid for sex.
A woman who says she was lured from Costa Rica into a Virginia-based sex-trafficking ring says a former police chief and three other officers were clients of the enterprise and allowed it to operate.
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The woman known to jurors only as Jane Doe shook her head Thursday when her lawyer asked her a question she knew was coming but clearly dreaded — could she describe the injuries she suffered during five years in a Virginia-based sex trafficking ring?
The allegations have evolved since the lawsuit was filed in 2021. The lawsuit initially did not identify any of the officers by name.