Kenneth Levan Nelson And Sarah Hayes: Police detained Kenneth Levan Nelson on allegations of human trafficking a 15-year-old girl from Texas. In April 2022, the adolescent went missing during a Dallas Mavericks game.
Karen Gonzales and Sara Hayes, in addition to Nelson, were arrested. Police discovered the girl in the streets of Oklahoma City. The abductors allegedly raped her and starved her to death.
Who Is Kenneth Levan Nelson?
Kenneth Levan Nelson is a convicted $ex offender who was caught on April 8, 2022, for kidnapping a 15-year-old North Texas girl at a Dallas Mavericks game.
Nelson, according to authorities, was using internet adverts to prostitute the 15-year-old. He bought hotel rooms using someone else’s ID and advertised the adolescent in various nude states on Craigslist. Because she is a minor, the teen girl’s name will not be released.
Along with Nelson, two women were also identified to have been involved. The photos were allegedly taken by Karen Gonzales and Sara Hayes was apparently present there when those photos were taken.
Nelson and Hayes have been charged with human trafficking and other offenses. Their preliminary court hearing is scheduled to be held on August 15.
Texas North Richland Hills Daughter Missing
On April 8, 2022, a 15-year-old girl from North Richland Hill, Texas went missing after attending a Dallas Mavericks game. The girl and Kyle Morris, the girl’s stepfather, were in the Platinum level of the arena during the Mavericks’ game against Portland Trail Blazers.
When the girl did not return after going to the bathroom just before halftime, Kyle became suspicious and alerted security. The surveillance video showed the girl leaving out of the arena with an unknown man. She seemed to voluntarily leave with the man.
After the nonprofit organization, Texas Counter-Trafficking Initiative tried finding the girl through an online ad soliciting sex, she was found by police on the side of a road in Oklahoma City.
It had been 10 days after her stepfather filed a missing report from American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas when police found her. She had been taken to a hotel in Oklahoma City and was raped multiple times, starved, and not allowed to bathe.
A couple of days after she was found, the girl said to her mother, Brooke Morris that she had met many other girls in Oklahoma. Brooke said that her daughter said no one looked for those girls and wondered how long they have been there.
Kenneth Levan Nelson Arrest Charges Explained
Kenneth Levan Nelson was arrested after he prostituted a 15-year-old girl from Texas. He is charged with human trafficking and other offenses.
Nelson is a registered sex offender from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He was registered as a result of an out-of-state conviction in Henderson County. His previous offense is dated December 12, 1993, and was convicted on August 11, 1994.
The sex offender was charged with sexual misconduct with a 3-year-old and was jailed for 10 years and released on May 17, 2004. He was registered as a sexual offender on April 13, 2013, and the minimum registration period was 10 years.
Kenneth is a black man with tattoos on his abdomen and right and left arms. He was born on June 15, 1978, and is currently 44 years old.
