White DJ Accused Of Intercourse-Trafficking Practically 700 Black Ladies

A Florence, South Carolina, man was denied bond throughout a court docket listening to final week after being charged with human trafficking and intercourse crimes in August. 

On Monday, Jason Roger Pope appeared in court docket for a bond listening to, which lasted about 10 minutes when his protection counsel, Rose Mary Parham, introduced the intent to withdraw his request for a bond listening to however didn’t clarify the explanation behind the withdrawal, WBTW reviews.

The 42-year-old man is being held at Florence County Detention Heart, in response to the South Carolina Legal professional Basic’s Workplace.

Pope, a celebration promoter and native DJ, was arrested on August 29 on three counts of trafficking in individuals, three counts of first-degree legal sexual conduct, and one depend every of second-degree legal sexual conduct with a minor, selling the prostitution of a minor and kidnapping, WMBF Information reviews.

Arrest warrants present that between July 2017 and July 2019, Pope allegedly compelled 4 underaged women to carry out intercourse acts at his dwelling. One of many women was reportedly as younger as 13. One other alleged sufferer, a 17-year-old lady, instructed police Pope gave her cash, medicine and/or different objects in alternate for intercourse, WMBF Information reviews. 

“I suspected a very long time in the past that issues weren’t proper over there due to who he had coming out and in,” a longtime neighbor of Pope’s mentioned, the Atlanta Black Star reviews. “They regarded like they have been very younger, underage perhaps.” 

The South Carolina Regulation Enforcement Division (SLED) thinks there could also be extra victims, in response to WBTW Information 13. 

In keeping with arrest warrants, between Sept. 27, 2017, and Dec. 13, 2017, Pope compelled a 16-year-old to have interaction in business intercourse acts and threatened the sufferer, recognized as J.H., to carry out additional sexual acts for cash and different issues of worth, authorities mentioned, WMBF reviews.

In 2018, Pope was charged with two counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor however pleaded responsible to a lesser cost of two counts of cruelty to kids, WMBF reviews.

Between July 1, 2018, and Sept. 1, 2019, Pope sexually assaulted a 16-year-old, recognized as A.B., and paid the sufferer for intercourse acts, in response to arrest warrants, WMBF reviews. 

Once more, round July 7, 2019, the celebration promoter allegedly sexually assaulted a 14-year-old, recognized as S.M., and paid her for intercourse acts, arrest warrants state, WMBF reviews.  

Pope, a white man who goes by DJ Child, glorified his outlandish conduct by way of a sequence of images on his Fb web page, which stays lively, of him with a number of Black ladies. It’s unclear the age of the ladies within the images or if any of them have been concerned in offering info to police that led to his arrest. 

The Fb web page additionally lists him working as a avenue promoter for Def Jam Recordings since 1999, and states that he’s in a relationship. It additionally states the Florence man, who lives in Sumter, SC, studied on the College of South Carolina and went to CMA [Military Academy]. 

It was by way of social media that authorities realized that Pope solicited a 17-year-old, recognized as T.C. in arrest warrants, for business intercourse acts, and the sufferer obtained cash and different issues of worth from Pope. 

Throughout that very same interval, Pope allegedly held a minor in a house in opposition to her will and sexually assaulted her. The identification of that sufferer was not revealed, WMBF reviews. 

Pope’s run-ins with the regulation attributable to improper conduct with minors stems again to December 2011.  At the moment, a 13-year-old instructed deputies she had intercourse with Pope after a good friend launched them. He allegedly gave her marijuana and alcohol, deputies mentioned. She later discovered he had AIDS, in response to an incident report.

A second sufferer got here ahead alleging that Pope took her to his dwelling on Lakeview Drive and had intercourse together with her. The sufferer, additionally a minor, mentioned she was sexually assaulted on Thanksgiving of that yr and, just like the 13-year-old, was involved that she contracted AIDS from him. 

Each of the younger ladies recognized Pope’s dwelling and his license plate quantity, in response to the incident report, WMBF reviews. 

A Fb photograph gallery titled “DJ Child (Events & Ladies) Half 1” reveals over 100 images of the accused with a number of completely different Black ladies, many in compromising positions. Pope is grabbing a number of of the ladies’s butts and one photograph reveals him grabbing a lady by her crotch, with yet one more girl mendacity on prime of him topless.

In keeping with a Fb screenshot, Pope reportedly as soon as bragged that “I’m 36 with 693 BODIES (All Black females), WBU?” Atlanta Black Star reviews. 

“Rattling Jason Roger Pope all these images appears prefer it was taken in your own home,” one individual commented on Pope’s Fb web page on Tuesday (October 15), describing him as “a man who’s on a mission to torture somebody.”