Crime
The woman is the fifth of six defendants to plead guilty for their involvement in the trafficking ring, which they ran in 2023.
The leader of an interstate sex trafficking ring pleaded guilty Wednesday to her role in a conspiracy that victimized two minors and one adult, prosecutors said.
Christy Parker, 28, of Fall River, admitted guilt on two counts of sex trafficking by force, fraud, or coercion; one count of conspiracy to commit sex trafficking; and one count of sex trafficking a minor, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts said in a press release. She was one of six people indicted in the conspiracy in July 2024 and has remained in federal custody since.
Parker and her co-defendants trafficked the victims throughout Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and South Carolina. She had moved in with the adult victim and coerced the woman to quit her job and engage in commercial sex work.
From January through August 2023, Parker made the three victims “engage in repeated commercial sex acts” in and around Fall River, according to prosecutors. She used beatings, threats, intimidation, sleep deprivation, starvation, and other tactics to coerce them.
In early 2023, Parker beat, threatened, and verbally abused the adult victim, the U.S. Attorney’s office said. Specifically, she imposed “manufactured debts” on the victim, gave her alcohol and later withheld it, and threatened to have the authorities take her 3-year-old child away.
Parker and a minor later worked to recruit the two minor victims by falsely promising them “easy money,” according to prosecutors. She and her co-defendants harbored them in a house and a Somerset hotel, providing them for paid sex throughout July and August 2023.
Investigators found that Parker beat at least one of the minors and threatened both of them. She also starved them, prevented them from sleeping, and confiscated their earnings from the sex, prosecutors said.
In August 2023, one of the minor victims called her social worker, who alerted law enforcement. Parker was later arrested at the hotel where she had been harboring the victims, according to the U.S. Attorney’s office.
Parker is the fifth of the six defendants to be convicted in the case, prosecutors said. In November 2025, Tyreik Reid, 21, of Beaufort County, S.C., and Cory Primo, 43, of Fall River, were each sentenced to 70 months in prison after pleading guilty to the sex trafficking conspiracy five months earlier.
In January, Avvani Jeffers, 22, of Fall River, and Tre’sean Reid, 21, of Beaufort County, S.C., were sentenced after pleading guilty to sex trafficking crimes in October 2025. The remaining defendant, Alexander Smalls, 25, of Beaufort County, S.C., has pleaded not guilty and is still awaiting a trial, according to prosecutors.
Parker faces up to life in prison for the conspiracy charge, 15 years to life for the charge of sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion, and 10 years to life for sex trafficking of a minor, the U.S. Attorney’s office said. For each of these charges, she also faces five years to a lifetime of supervised release and a $250,000 fine.
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