A 46-year-old Baltimore woman has been indicted on charges including rape, prostitution, sexual solicitation of a minor and child pornography after investigators say she trafficked a 13-year-old girl out of her East Baltimore home. Marnie Voxakis allegedly went by the street name “Bunny,” and the girl reportedly told investigators she exchanged sex for money and drugs at the residence.
According to WEAA, the girl identified the home where the alleged exchanges took place as belonging to “Bunny,” who was later identified as Voxakis. Police statements shared on social media indicate Voxakis allegedly connected the teenager with a man named John O'Day for sex at her residence, according to a Facebook post from the Baltimore Sun. The man accused of abusing the teenager was separately indicted on rape and trafficking charges last month, per the same account.
What Maryland Law Says About the Charges
Under Maryland Criminal Law § 3-1102, sex trafficking involving a minor victim is classified as a felony carrying penalties of up to 25 years in prison, a fine of up to $15,000, or both, according to the Maryland General Assembly. Amendments to the state's trafficking statutes also mean prosecutors are not required to prove force, fraud or coercion was used when the victim is under 18, according to Maryland Human Sex Trafficking Law 101, which notes the changes also eliminated age-ignorance defenses for defendants.
The 13-year-old victim, meanwhile, is legally shielded from prosecution. Maryland law under Criminal Law § 1-402 and state child welfare statutes grants minor victims of sex trafficking immunity from criminal charges and classifies them instead as child abuse victims eligible for protective state intervention, according to Justia. Separately, Maryland code allows law enforcement to pursue civil asset forfeiture of real property used in connection with a trafficking offense upon conviction under § 3-1102, a provision that could target homes used to facilitate commercial sex work.
Healthcare Providers and a Statewide Pattern
Research from the Maryland Hospital Association found that roughly 81% of domestic minor sex trafficking victims interact with a healthcare provider in the year before being identified and rescued, underscoring hospitals' role as an early-intervention point. The same research noted that in 2021, the National Human Trafficking Resource Center logged 751 substantive trafficking signals in Maryland, ranking the state 13th highest nationally in call volume, with 279 of those signals coming directly from survivors, according to the Maryland Hospital Association.
A statewide survey published in April 2025 by the University of Maryland SAFE Center found that about 20% of the more than 1,100 trafficking survivors served by Maryland organizations between 2019 and 2023 were minors, according to the University of Maryland SAFE Center. Federal judicial data compiled by the Human Trafficking Institute showed that every new federal human trafficking case brought in Maryland courts in 2021 focused on sex trafficking rather than forced labor, with six defendants convicted that year statewide.
A Broader Enforcement Push
Cases like Voxakis's fall under the umbrella of the Maryland Human Trafficking Task Force, established in 2007 and led by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Maryland to integrate federal, state and local law enforcement with non-profit victim service providers across seven specialized subcommittees, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. The Voxakis case follows other recent Baltimore-area trafficking prosecutions covered by Hoodline, including a teacher held on $5M bail in a separate teen-trafficking case and a convicted child sex trafficker who escaped a halfway house before receiving additional prison time.
Key questions remain open in the Voxakis case, including how long the 13-year-old victim was allegedly exploited, whether additional buyers or accomplices will face indictment, and whether authorities will pursue civil asset forfeiture against the East Baltimore property where the abuse allegedly occurred.
