Rickey Smiley talked about the lasting effect of Atlanta Rapper Cash Out, whose real name is John Michael Hakeem Gibson, prostitution ring. The rapper was accused of running a prostitution enterprise that manipulated women into prostitution.
According to WSBTV in Atlanta, a 41 count indictment has been set against the rapper. Cash Out was named the leader of the organization.
His charges include sex trafficking, racketeering, rape, trafficking a person for sexual servitude, aggravated sodomy, and more.
Allegedly, Cash Out used his status as a rapper to lure his victims. Some women were reportedly held against their will, and others were beaten.
“We’ve rescued two so far,” Fulton County Deputy District attorney Earnell Winfrey said. “Some of these women are our most vulnerable women, and he lured them in, let them believe that he cared about them and that he would take care of them, only to flip the script and then began to pimp them out.”
The musician is accused of whipping a young lady who worked as a sex worker. He also recruited her.
Cash Out is currently incarcerated. If convicted, he faces 25 years to life in prison.