What to Know
- A woman has pleaded guilty to conspiracy after she and her boyfriend were accused of drugging a girl and forcing her into sex work
- The victim thought she was going to babysit one of the defendants' kids and was forced to become a prostitute, officials say
- She had to sleep with up to five men a day during three- or four-night stays at NJ motels; she escaped after 10 days of the nightmare
A New Jersey woman accused of drugging a 17-year-old girl and forcing her into prostitution at local motels, where she was forced to sleep with as many as five men a day, has pleaded guilty to a conspiracy charge.
Adria Regn, of Mount Holly, faces a five-year prison term when she’s sentenced Jan. 5. She pleaded guilty Tuesday to conspiracy to facilitate human trafficking.
Regn, 28, and her 19-year-old boyfriend, Christopher White, lured the teen to a motel room in October, asking her to babysit Regn’s two young children. Instead, they allegedly gave her methamphetamine and marijuana and forced her to have sex with several men.
Regn has two young children, and the victim, who knew White, went to the first motel believing she would be babysitting the children, prosecutors said. Instead, White and Regn allegedly gave her the drugs and told her that she needed to work as an “escort” for them so that they could make money.
They allegedly said that if she did not work for them, it would be her fault if Regn’s children ended up on the street. White allegedly threatened to beat the victim if she did not take crystal meth, and he also allegedly threatened to find her and beat her if she did not continue to work for them as a prostitute.
White and Regn allegedly placed a number of ads on Backpage.com with photos of the victim in various states of undress, including completely nude, advertising the girl’s services as an escort, according to prosecutors.
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White and Regn, who would stay in the same room as the victim or an adjoining room, would arrange for clients to meet the victim for sex and then collected all of the money paid by the clients, an indictment alleges. The victim did not receive money.
During a three- or four-day stay at a motel in Wrightstown, White and Regn allegedly made the victim have sex with at least five men each day. The victim ultimately fled while White and Regn were asleep and contacted authorities.
Regn and White had been held in the Burlington County jail since their arrests in May.
White’s charges are still pending. His public defender declined comment to the Associated Press.
