KENTUCKY (WKZO AM/FM) — 35-year-old David Givhan of Kalamazoo has been given nearly 20 years in a federal penitentiary for sex trafficking, transporting women from Michigan to work the crowds during the Kentucky Derby and at other major events in Indiana and other states.
It wasn’t his first conviction. Known in the sex trade as “Premiere”, he was convicted in Kentucky by a federal jury in December for one count of sex trafficking and three counts of interstate transportation for prostitution.
U.S. Attorney John Kuhn Jr. says Givhan would make a lot of promises of a better life to recruit vulnerable women, and then use violence, threats, coercion and other actions to terrorize them, and force them to prostitute themselves for him, and then he would keep the money.
Kuhn called it a “Modern day form of slavery”.
Givhan remains in federal custody.
