Trial
for Sex
Trafficking
Teen from NC
to The Bronx
Has Victim as
Witness &
Pricing Codes
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
May 3 – Michael
Paschal is on
trial for sex
trafficking a
17 year old
girl from
North Carolina
to engage in
commercial sex
at his
direction in a
building on
Brady Avenue
in the Bronx
in 2000.
On May 2, 2023
the trial
began before
U.S. District
Court for the
Southern
District of
New York Judge
Vernon S.
Broderick.
Inner City
Press was
there, the
only media in
the
courtroom.
After the jury
was selected -
the voir dire
questions
included the
NYC Agency for
Child
Services,
which kept the
victim
"Sunshine" in
the hospital
until
returning her
to North
Carolina - the
opening
statement were
given in the
afternoon.
By
day's end, the
prosecutors
were reading
into the
record a
mind-numbing
litany of
declarations,
about Meta,
TextNow and
Apple records,
and foreign
business
records from
Poland.
On
May 3 the
victim,
referred to as
Kaitlin Smith
and
"Sunshine,"
was on the
stand. The
defense tried
to emphasize
that she'd
said she was
19. But on
re-direct she
said the
defendant told
her to say
that.
A
detective
testified
about the code
used in the
ads for
pricing; the
defense asked
if their
couldn't be a
second
explanation
for "safe."
The cell site
expert
previously
with the US
Attorney's
Office and now
paid $5000 by
it testified,
past 5:30 pm.
Again,
the exhibits
were
"published" to
the jurors,
but not on the
larger screen
facing the
courtroom
gallery.
The
case is US v.
Paschal,
21-cr-331
(Broderick)
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