Registered Sex Offender Convicted of Sex Trafficking Minors and an Adult

DETROIT – After a seven-day trial, a federal jury convicted Kevin Lavon Giles of sex trafficking two minors and one adult, United States Attorney Jerome F. Gorgon, Jr. announced.

Gorgon was joined in the announcement by Cheyvoryea Gibson, Special Agent in Charge of the Detroit Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Giles, 59, of Detroit, was convicted of four counts—two counts of sex trafficking children through force, fraud, or coercion, one count of sex trafficking an adult through force, fraud, or coercion, and one count of committing a felony against a minor after having been required to register as a sex offender. Giles was required to register as a sex offender based on his 1986 conviction for Criminal Sexual Conduct. United States District Court Judge Terrence Berg presided over the trial. Giles faces a mandatory minimum sentence of 25 years in prison and up to life.

The testimony at trial proved Giles exploited his female victims by requiring them to perform commercial sex acts in return for shelter for them and their children. Two of Giles’s victims were under 18 at the time he trafficked them. Giles posted advertisements for commercial sex for all his victims, arranged their commercial sex dates, and collected the proceeds of the sex acts. Witnesses testified that Giles used hidden cameras to monitor the sex acts of all his victims and to direct the sex acts of the adult victim.

“If you question whether evil exists, you have your answer,” said U.S. Attorney Gorgon. “We are called to protect women and children. This man abused and exploited them to fill his pockets.”

"The conviction of Kevin Giles, a registered sex offender, reinforces our unwavering commitment to protecting our citizens, especially the most vulnerable from those who seek to exploit them,” said Cheyvoryea Gibson, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI Detroit Field Office. “I would like to extend my deepest appreciation to our Southeast Michigan Trafficking and Exploitation Crimes (SEMTEC) Task Force for their thorough investigative work. Investigating Human Trafficking is a top priority to the Bureau.  We will continue to focus our efforts to save lives of those who are victimized by bad actors and bring those accountable to justice.”

The FBI’s Southeast Michigan Trafficking and Exploitation Crimes Task Force investigated this. Assistant U.S. Attorneys Diane Princ and Ranya Elzein prosecuted the case on behalf of the United States.