A Denver judge handed what might be the longest sentence ever given to a human trafficker in the history of the U.S., the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said Thursday.
Robert Hawkins was sentenced to 448 years in prison Thursday after being convicted by a jury on a series of charges, including human trafficking, according to a Denver District Attorney’s Office press release. The 44-year-old was convicted on 18 counts total, including five counts of human trafficking.
He was convicted on other charges, including four counts of pimping an adult, one count of pimping a child, two counts of first-degree assault, and one count of sexual assault on a child, the Denver DA’s office said in March.
“It’s believed to be [the] longest sentence ever given to a convicted human trafficker in U.S. history,” the FBI Denver office said in a post on Twitter. (RELATED: ‘I’m Okay…
