Mind blown. Human trafficking broken up in Malvern, East Whiteland Township.
It started with a news release from the Chester County District Attorney’s Office:
HUMAN SEX TRAFFICKING ORGANIZATION DISMANTLED IN MALVERN
A 14-year-old’s message, “I don’t want to be here anymore,” assisted in an investigation that uncovered an East Whiteland Township human sex trafficking organization that entrapped child and adult victims in Malvern, PA.
East Whiteland Township police, along with the Chester County Detectives and Homeland Security Investigations, rescued the 14-year-old victim at a Wawa parking lot in Malvern on May 30, 2020, after she was held against her will for weeks at various locations in the area. Investigators subsequently learned that she and an 18-year-old were both victims in a human sex trafficking organization run by three men, as well as other unidentified and unnamed individuals. These codefendants engaged in a criminal conspiracy and criminal course of conduct by recruiting, enticing, soliciting, transporting, obtaining and maintaining individuals who they benefited from financially while they were subjected to sexual servitude, as well as other sexual assaults and criminal activity.
Then the news exploded.
A Facebook message from a 14-year-old girl asking for help led to the discovery of a human trafficking ring in the Philadelphia suburbs.
East Whiteland Township police, Chester County detectives and Homeland Security investigators rescued the girl from the parking lot of a Malvern, Pennsylvania, Wawa on May 30, Chester County District Attorney Deb Ryan said Wednesday.
Investigators said the girl had been held for several weeks against her will in various locations in the area. Investigators then found out the 14-year-old and an 18-year-old woman were being forced into sex by three men and others….Authorities want to know if other girls or young women were victimized.
“The allegations in this case are difficult to digest because of the calculated and deviant sexual exploitation of the two victims,” Ryan said. “Our office will continue the investigation to determine if there are other victims of this human sex trafficking organization.”
So this all took place in that no man’s land of ramshackle rental properties that go from like the Wawa at Planebrook through to Sloane Toyota? All along Lancaster Avenue a/k/a Route 30? And maybe from the Wawa headed east on Route 30? I’m all turned around. I have an idea where a couple of the locations were because of the NBC10 video.
Sorry not sorry this is just horrible and very scary.

Interestingly enough I learned courtesy of the East Whiteland Township meeting this evening that they have no rental inspectors. So basically no one keeps tabs on any rental properties? Does Chester County keep track of them? This is foreign to me because municipalities along the Main Line do have rental inspector people.
I asked if they knew all of the property owners involved in these various Lancaster Avenue rental properties especially those involved in the trafficking bust and yikes? The answer came from someone who I am not sure of was residents can look things up on Chesco views (paraphrasing).
Well yes, kind sir, I realize that but the maps get confusing. What is it they don’t understand about the fact that news like this makes residents in the area feel uneasy?
Human trafficking is terrifying stuff. And it’s crazy that it was going on in Chester County. Maybe I’m naïve. But you just don’t think of hideous crimes like that here. You think about that in big cities. One of the other things that I can’t wrap my head around is did the parents of these girls report their daughters missing?
Be safe out there. Hug your kids. Love your kids. What a cruel world we live in sometimes.
It is horrific. Sadly, I attended a women’s group meeting 10 years ago where the program speaker was Chester County’s own, Carol Metzker. She was a former student of some of my friends. She wrote and published, “Facing the Monster — How One Person Can Fight Child Slavery.” We purchased her book and she is an excellent activist and speaker. These people operate right under the noses of Chester County citizens on a daily basis and they have for many years. We support her work which continues.
I can’t say I know anything of the residents of the brown 1799 house that presently houses a tattoo parlor on the ground floor, but the old farmhouse presently on the property of Jeff D’Ambrosio Fiat has been converted into apartments and is administered by one of the sales managers. I know of (not know personally!) at least one of the alleged ringleaders – the suspect who resided there. He is in the country legally and had no prior criminal record. He and his flatmates (not named in the investigation report and thus presumed not to be involved) were somewhat regular customers. We thought he was just an average stoner. Now people are going so far as to equate his national origin with gang affiliation (hey people, don’t do that). There were no signs. Terrifying how they can hide in plain sight.