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Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009

14-year-old forced to serve as sex slave, Bibb indictment alleges

Two Macon men have been indicted on charges that they locked a 14-year-old girl in a house in the Pleasant Hill neighborhood and forced her to have sex with up to 15 people.

Shuntain N. Griffin, 30, and Marcus Dwayne Henley, 31, are charged with trafficking a person for sexual servitude, according to an indictment returned in Bibb County Superior Court Tuesday.

Neither man had been arrested by late Tuesday afternoon.

Griffin was introduced to the girl by other men in the Bloomfield area of Macon days after she ran away from home, Bibb County sheriff’s Investigator Allie Seckinger said.

The next day, Griffin and Henley took the girl to a house on Second Avenue, where, in the girl’s words, she was forced to “serve” people, Seckinger said.

“They pretty much pimped her out,” Capt. Mike Smallwood said.

After two to three days, Griffin and Henley sold the girl to a Crawford County man for $500, Seckinger said.

Authorities soon received a tip that the girl was in Crawford County and returned her to her family. It wasn’t until later interviews that investigators discovered that sexual activity had occurred, Seckinger said.

Daniel Chestley White, 46, of Grace Road in Crawford County was arrested in October on charges of child molestation, aggravated sodomy, rape, interference with child custody, contributing to the delinquency of a minor, and human trafficking, according to the Crawford County Sheriff’s Office.

Additional charges may be pending against White in Bibb County, Seckinger said.

Check back at Macon.com and read Wednesday’s Telegraph for more information.