Overview
- Vincent Bailey, 25, was sentenced on October 3, 2025, to a decade in prison and ordered to pay $7,000 in restitution in the Southern District of California.
- Prosecutors say he trafficked the victim between June 25 and July 15, 2024, moving her from Las Vegas to Los Angeles and San Diego.
- The case details include recruitment via Instagram, a coerced sexual relationship, and online sex ads that included semi-nude images, according to a probable cause filing.
- The teen sought help in National City on July 5 and was later found with a tattoo under her left eye matching Bailey’s, a tactic prosecutors described as branding.
- California Highway Patrol arrested Bailey on October 1, 2024, during a traffic stop where another missing juvenile from Spokane was a passenger, with the probe led by the San Diego Human Trafficking Task Force and prosecuted by the SVU.