Woman Admits Role in Massachusetts Sex Trafficking Ring

BOSTON (WBSM) — A Fall River woman pleaded guilty in federal court Wednesday for her role in a sex trafficking conspiracy that victimized two minors and an adult.

According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Christy Parker, a.k.a. “Luna,” 28, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit sex trafficking; two counts of sex trafficking by force, fraud, or coercion; and one count of sex trafficking a minor.

Co-Defendants and Sentencing Outcomes

Parker was arrested and charged in June 2024 along with five other people, including two others from Fall River: Cory Primo, 42 at the time of arrest, and Avvani Jeffers, 22. Also indicted in connection was Alexander Smalls, 25, and Tre’sean Reid, 21, both of Beaufort County, South Carolina, and Tyreik Reid, 20, of Allendale, South Carolina.

Allegations of Abuse and Coercion

In November 2025, Tyreik Reid and Primo were each sentenced to 70 months in prison after pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit sex trafficking in June 2025. Jeffers and Tre’sean Reid were sentenced in January 2026 after each pleading guilty in October 2025. Alexander Smalls has pleaded not guilty and is awaiting trial.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office said that between January and August of 2023, Parker “used physical beatings, threats, intimidation, sleep deprivation, starvation and other means to coerce at least one adult victim and two minor victims to engage in repeated commercial sex acts in and around Fall River.”

In early 2023, Parker coerced the adult victim into engaging in sexual acts for money by physically beating, threatening and verbally abusing her. She also “imposed manufactured debts” on the victim, supplied them alcohol and then withheld it, and threatened to have authorities take the victim’s three-year-old child away.

How the Minor Victims Were Recruited

Parker later worked with a minor to recruit two minor victims “for commercial sex with false promises of easy money.” Parker and the co-defendants harbored the minor victims in a house and a Somerset hotel. They then used them to engage in sex acts for money for two months in July and August 2023.

Parker physically beat at least one minor victim and threatened both minor victims, prohibited them from sleeping so they could engage in more commercial sex, starved them and confiscated all of their earnings.

In August 2023, one of the minor victims called her social worker and asked for help. The social worker contacted law enforcement, and Parker was arrested at the Somerset hotel where she had been harboring the victims.

Potential Sentencing and Penalties

Parker is scheduled for sentencing on July 15, 2026.

The charge of conspiracy to commit sex trafficking provides for a sentence of up to life in prison, at least five years and up to a lifetime of supervised release and a fine of $250,000. The charge of sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion, provides for a sentence of at least 15 years and up to life in prison, at least five years and up to a lifetime of supervised release and a fine of $250,000. The charge of sex trafficking of a minor provides for a sentence of at least 10 years and up to life in prison, at least five years and up to a lifetime of supervised release and a fine of $250,000.

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