14 Indicted in Colorado Child-Sex Trafficking Case

Fourteen individuals have been indicted for a suspected child-sex trafficking ring in Colorado, according to state Attorney General John Suthers. Here are the details.

* A 70-count indictment secured on Monday accuses four men of overseeing a human trafficking ring that involved transporting children for sex in hotel rooms and "out calls" in Denver, Boulder, Glenwood, Springs, Grand Junction and Lakewood. Patrick Lloyd McGowan, Chad Armand Gow, Roy Manuel Ibarra-Gonzales and Bryan Steven Burns are suspected of arranging sex deals involving their child victims via the Internet. The men coerced their victims through drugs and violent threats, the attorney general's office said.

* The lead count on the indictment is trafficking in children. Other counts include pimping of a child, inducement of child prostitution and introducing contraband in the first degree. A conviction of trafficking children carries a sentence of up to 24 years in prison and up to $1 million in fines.

* Gow is also suspected of unlawful sexual contact with one of the female victims listed in the indictment. According to the indictment, the defendant engaged in sexual contact without the victim's consent and through the application of physical force or physical violence.

* Gow and Ibarra-Gonzales operated a criminal enterprise that recruited and pimped juvenile girls, the indictment stated. The enterprise was known as RAH clique. RAH stands for Rappin' and Hustlin'. Both men had tattoos showing their association with RAH clique.

* Upon being arrested in December, Gow directed a friend to sell his computer, hide his cellphone and delete his Facebook page, the indictment stated. Ibarra-Gonzales also directed a friend to deactivate his Facebook account and to delete another account.

* The four men are also accused of selling methamphetamine and cocaine.

* In addition to the four ringleaders of the enterprise, the attorney general's office reported the indictment of 10 others who either abetted or patronized the operation. Some of the counts against those individuals include tampering with evidence, patronizing a prostituted child, contributing to the delinquency of a minor, pandering of a child, and unlawful sexual contact. Several of those counts involve transporting the juvenile girls to hotel rooms or "out calls" in exchange for money.

* According to Suthers' office, this is the second human trafficking case to be prosecuted by Senior Assistant Attorney General Janet Drake, a member of the Colorado Human Trafficking Task Force. In October 2010, an indictment was secured for Dallas Colby Cardenas and Ryan Keith Jenkins for forcing two female victims, ages 18 and 17, to participate in prostitution in the Denver and Lakewood areas. The victims in that case were forced to pose for photos used in Craigslist ads. Cardenas was convicted in August and sentenced to eight years in prison.