ATLANTA — A Forest Park woman recently pleaded guilty to human trafficking and pimping charges and was sentenced to 25 years in prison.

Attorney General Chris Carr announced the plea and sentencing Thursday of Virginia Anne Bates, 37, of Forest Park.

As part of her plea, Bates admitted to knowingly harboring and providing a 16-year-old girl, a relative, and an 18-year-old girl to sex buyers. Bates also collected a portion of the financial proceeds from the commercial sex acts of both victims, a press release stated.

This conviction follows an investigation that was conducted by the Attorney General’s Human Trafficking Prosecution Unit, which recovered the 16-year-old girl in March 2023.

"For anyone to harm a child is unconscionable, but when that abuse and exploitation occurs at the ha

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