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Robert Hawkins, 44, was convicted on 18 charges including human trafficking and pimping involving minors.
DENVER — A man convicted in Denver District Court on more than a dozen charges including human trafficking and pimping involving minors was sentenced to 448 years in prison Friday.
Robert Hawkins, 44, was convicted in March on 18 charges, including:
- Three counts of human trafficking sexual servitude of an adult
- Four counts of pimping of an adult
- Human trafficking sexual servitude of a minor
- Pimping of a child
- Sexual assault on a child
- Two counts of first-degree assault
According to an account from a woman who reported working as a prostitute for Hawkins, he took all of the money she made from commercial sexual services and threatened to evict her, a search warrant for Hawkins’ accounts says.
“She was also fearful from all of the stories he told her about beating people up and kicking them out,” the warrant says.
Hawkins also told her he had other women working for him as prostitutes, the warrant says.
“He also kept on her about posting and asking her how much she was charging the sex buyers,” the warrant says. “At one point, Hawkins told [the woman] that she was responsible for what the other girls were doing and how they were earning money.”
She reported Hawkins saying the women were required to make $500 a day, and they were required “to make a $5,000 quota to gain Hawkins’ trust.”
“This quota was intended to help pay for a fake identification and birth certificate in order for the girls to travel to and perform sex work in California,” the warrant says.
Another victim who was 13 at the time reported Hawkins provided her alcohol and marijuana while she stayed at his apartment for three or four days, the warrant says. During that time, she said Hawkins told her he was a “self-admitted pimp” who was involved with escort advertisements.
“The girls sign up for the website, post pictures, write a caption ‘saying some nasty stuff’ and basically meet up with someone at a hotel and do whatever was agreed upon,” the victim said.
Investigators learned that the victim came to Colorado with Hawkins in 2019 when she was 19, the affidavit says.
Hawkins was arrested in this investigation in November 2021, and he was also arrested along with the victim in 2022 in an undercover prostitution sting, the warrant says.
Despite the arrests, eight months later the victim was posting numerous online advertisements, and they were known to have been traveling between California and Texas, the affidavit says.
Another search warrant described how a man identified as Hawkins was involved in the robbery and shooting of a man who told investigators that he had paid a woman for sex and was dropping her off when the incident occurred.
The woman involved in the incident told investigators how she was prostituted by the man identified as Hawkins and refused to get out of the car of the man who was shot because she was asking him for help, the warrant says.
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