(FORT WAYNE) - A Fort Wayne woman will avoid prison time after being sentenced in a human trafficking case involving a missing Northeast Indiana teenager.
Twenty-one-year-old Harley Cooley was sentenced Monday to a six-year suspended sentence after pleading guilty to child exploitation. She will serve four years on probation. The plea agreement dismissed two counts of promotion of child sexual trafficking and was accepted at the victim's request.
Cooley is the second woman sentenced in the case. Last month, 22-year-old Leticia Granados was sentenced to six years in prison followed by three years of probation after pleading guilty to child sexual trafficking and child exploitation.
Court records say the two women trafficked a 17-year-old girl over several days, arranging around 20 sexual encounters. The victim was taken to Indianapolis before returning to Fort Wayne, where she was later recovered by police.