Ca$h Out was sentenced to life in jail plus 70 years by a Fulton County choose after being convicted on a number of fees tied to a intercourse trafficking ring that prosecutors say he led throughout metro Atlanta.

The former rapper, born John-Michael Hakim Gibson, was discovered responsible of rape, pimping and aggravated sodomy. He was convicted on two intercourse trafficking counts and acquitted on a 3rd.

Additional fees, together with sexual servitude and aggravated assault, had been dismissed.

The courtroom ordered that the 70-year sentence run concurrently with the life time period, that means he is not going to serve further time past the life time period.

Ca$h Out should additionally register as a intercourse offender, keep away from contact with victims or their households and keep away from a number of places in Atlanta, together with the Fulton Industrial Boulevard hall.

He was initially supplied 25 years, however selected to gamble and take the case to trial and misplaced miserably.

During Monday’s sentencing (July 21), victims and their households delivered emotional statements describing the trauma they endured. One lady mentioned she felt “disgusting” and “unlovable” after being trafficked.

Others spoke of long-term results together with PTSD, nervousness and despair.

The mother and father of 1 sufferer instructed the courtroom that Ca$h Out used his superstar standing to govern and exploit.

The case revealed a years-long operation that prosecutors mentioned functioned like a felony enterprise. Authorities charged Ca$h Out below Georgia’s RICO legal guidelines, sometimes used for organized crime, arguing he ran a for-profit intercourse trafficking ring.

More than 50 witnesses testified all through the trial. Some ladies mentioned they had been raped or denied meals except they carried out intercourse acts for cash.

Others mentioned Ca$h Out or his mom took the cash they earned.

Prosecutors additionally offered video proof from a prostitution sting to spotlight the structured nature of the operation.

Ca$h Out’s mom, Linda Smith, often called “Mama Ca$h Out,” was convicted of 1 trafficking cost however cleared of one other and a prostitution rely. She was hit with 30 years.

A 3rd defendant, Tyrone Taylor, was discovered responsible on all fees besides pimping, together with rape and aggravated sodomy. Taylor acquired life plus 70 years.

Ca$h Out first rose to fame with the 2012 hit single “Cashin’ Out”, however had light from the music scene by the point the investigation started in 2019.

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