Ian Justin Ranney, 35, did not know it was part of a Dallas law enforcement sting operation when he answered the ad placed by an agent posing as a human...
“It is very much the reality of human trafficking and sexual exploitation,” said Tonya Stafford Manning, a former victim who helps rescued women and is not involved in the case. “We have a real epidemic here.”Ranney lived in the San Francisco Bay Area where he drove a Tesla and worked as a sommelier. He had no criminal history. Ranney grew up in California, attended college and worked in the hospitality industry.
Manning said her mother sold her into prostitution for drugs when she was 13. A man bought and kept her for a decade during which he beat and raped her into submission, she said.“It’s your next door neighbor. He could be a pastor. He could be a fireman,” she said. “A pillar of the community.”Ranney’s lawyer, Cody Cofer, told the judge Tuesday his client is smart and talented in many ways but initially had difficulty “connecting” with people.
He needed someone willing to “train one of his girls that was no longer wanting to work for him,” Trojacek said.During testimony, Trojacek detailed how Ranney described his qualifications. “He said that he was skilled in behavior and control as well, as he’s trained over a dozen girls.” The recalcitrant young woman needed to “do whatever they [clients] asked her to do and bring him back the money,” said Wade, the prosecutor.Ranney suggested he torture the woman at an isolated warehouse because she would be “screaming” and because it was “degrading,” court records show. He proposed eight days to break her. The two finally agreed on four days, at $1,500 per day, court records show.
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