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DA: East Bay sex offender kidnapped woman and girl for human trafficking, force-fed them meth

Teaching kids to protect themselves from human trafficking MARTINEZ — It took jurors less than a full day of deliberating to find Louis Ray Coleman guilty on all charges in a 25-count human trafficking, rape, and kidnapping case.

Coleman, 42, now faces a life sentence. He was convicted of separately kidnapping two people — a woman and a 12-year-old girl — then taking them to the backyard of an abandoned building, raping them for days, and forcing them to ingest methamphetamine.

He kidnapped the woman, who was new to the Bay Area, after she got lost from BART and accepted Coleman’s offer for help. After she escaped her captivity by running away as they walked down the street, Coleman kidnapped a 12-year-old girl who had just run away from a group home.

Coleman attempted to traffic both victims, taking one to a hotel and telling her she was going to make money for him, according to testimony.

Prosecutors called two other women to testify that Coleman had committed similar crimes against them. One was kidnapped at age 12 as she walked home from school in Oakland 22 years ago, the other was under Coleman’s control for an extended period of time.

Prosecutor Diana Weiss, called the case “a real wake up call for everyone about the real and present danger of human trafficking, which is going on right in our backyards.”

“Getting justice for the victims is only half the battle, they still have a lifetime of healing ahead of them,” Weiss said.