By BRENT MARTIN
St. Joseph Post
A Shawnee, Kansas man has been sentenced for sex trafficking two teenage victims, including one from St. Joseph.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office of Western Missouri reports 40-year-old Antonia Flemming has been sentenced to 13 years in federal prison, plus another 15 on supervised release. Flemming will be required to register as a sex offender.
Flemming pleaded guilty last year to two counts of sex trafficking a child. Flemming confessed to recruiting a 16-year-old from St. Joseph as well as a 16-year-old from Kansas City, Missouri to be prostitutes in early 2019.
Lenexa, Kansas police arrested Flemming with an unidentified woman leaving a local hotel with one of the victims. Investigators report Flemming and the woman dropped off one of the victims at the victim's home, then drove to St. Joseph to pick up the other victim to meet with a client at a Lenexa hotel. When the client failed to show, Flemming had sex with the victim in the hotel room. Police stopped them when they left the hotel together.
Both of the victims told investigators Flemming recruited them to perform massages for clients, then learned that actually meant having sex with them. One of the victims told investigators she saw clients approximately five to six times a day, three times a week.