The trailer was just feet away from the mobile home park’s garbage containers where residents of the 600-unit complex dump their trash. Investigators said Dennis, Clements, Blasdel and Gauthier repeatedly raped the boy for nearly a year.īut neighbors at the trailer park told the I-Team they didn’t suspect anything unusual was going on inside the trailer until police announced the charges in early 2019.

Gauthier, regularly visited the trailer, according to police reports.Īll six men currently face charges of conspiracy to commit human trafficking, among other charges. Mark Dennis, Andrew Clements, Curtis Gruwell and Michael Schwartz all lived in the trailer with the boy at Silver Lake Mobile Home Park. Police say the men disabled the boy’s cell phone, so he couldn’t be tracked and then gave him a new name, birth date and back story. Police say he was brought to the wedding by a family friend, Eleanor McGlamory, who is also charged with conspiracy in the case.Ĭourt records show Dennis and Clements immediately started texting the boy using Discord, a free video and texting app, and picked him up at his home 140 miles away just three weeks later. The boy first met accused traffickers Mark Dennis and Andrew Clements at their April 2017 wedding. Neighbors at the mobile home park told the I-Team they met and saw the first victim, a 16-year-old Marion County boy, with his accused traffickers but never suspected he “was forced to serve as their own personal sex slave” - the accusations in a probable cause affidavit obtained by the I-Team. Department of Justice estimates 36 percent of child sex trafficking victims are boys. Petersburg Police arrest 7 people accused of sexually exploiting teen boysĪ 2016 study funded by the U.S. Police said the men used video games and online apps, including Omegle, Roblox and Discord to find and communicate with their victims.

Petersburg using video games, online apps and even the promise of a puppy, the I-Team uncovered in new details of the horrific case that made headlines last year after the state’s top prosecutor revealed the victim “was moved into a filthy trailer and used as a sex slave for nearly a year.” Accused child sex traffickers lured two teen boys to St.

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