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A man has been sentenced to two life sentences in a Miami-Dade human trafficking case involving a child who was in foster care and an adult, prosecutors said.
Keith Robertson, 36, was given the two life sentences Wednesday, after a jury convicted him in January on human trafficking and other charges, the Miami-Dade State Attorney's Office said.
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WATCH HERERobertson, of Detroit, had been arrested in Miami-Dade in 2024 for transporting a minor who was in foster care in California and a 20-year-old victim to South Florida to exploit them.
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According to an arrest report, ad for prostitution featuring the minor was posted, and when undercover detectives contacted the number on the ad, they were told it would cost $300 for 30 minutes of "straight sex."
The victim, a 17-year-old girl, later showed up at a hotel to have sex for money, the report said.
The teen told investigators she'd driven to South Florida with a man, Robertson, and a woman, the report said.
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"The skilled prosecutorial team of Assistant State Attorney’s Yaneth Baez and Shaymaa Shwel were able to successfully educate the jurors about the crime of Human Trafficking to obtain Robertson’s conviction," Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle said in a statement Wednesday. "I want to acknowledge the hard work of these dedicated prosecutors and the efforts of the investigators and staff of my Human Trafficking Unit whose efforts have ensured that Keith Robertson will be unable to exploit our young
people again in the future."
