By Edward Mitchell

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

A federal jury has found a Stone Mountain man guilty of running a violent sex trafficking operation in Atlanta.

Solomon Manessah Mustafa, 38, was convicted of sex trafficking, kidnapping, transporting women across state lines for prostitution, document servitude, and enticement of a minor for sexual activity.

“This defendant brutally assaulted young women to force them into acts of prostitution in three states,” U.S. Attorney Sally Quillian Yates said in a statement. “While all of the victims managed to escape from the defendant, many were beaten, raped, handcuffed and forced to snort cocaine by the defendant and his co-conspirator. Now, he faces a lengthy sentence in federal prison.”

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