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Kirkwood Man Pleads Guilty to Sex Trafficking

Bradley Cook will serve 20 years in federal prison without parole for torturing a woman who was coerced as a sex slave.

Bradley Cook, of Kirkwood, pleaded guilty in federal court Tuesday to commercial sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion, for his involvement in the .

Cook will serve 20 years in federal prison without parole. The plea agreement does not provide him any credit for cooperating with the government, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office of the Western District of Missouri. Cook is the third defendant to plead guilty  in the human trafficking case.

More details about the case can be found in a news release from the U.S. Department of Justice.

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