A Las Vegas woman has been sentenced to 14 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to trafficking children for sex, recruiting them, advertising them online and coordinating encounters with adults who paid for abuse. Tori Mangum, also known in news reports as Tori Magnum, admitted to one count of sex trafficking of children in a case brought in the District of Nevada.
According to KOLO, Mangum recruited multiple children to engage in sexually explicit conduct with adults, then advertised the children through prostitution ads that depicted them in a salacious manner. The station reports she also coordinated the sexual encounters between the children and adults and kept a portion of the money generated from the acts. Federal court records list the case as United States v. Mangum, docket 2:22-cr-00050, according to CourtListener, which identifies the defendant by her full legal name, Tori Iman Lucia Mangum.
A Case Years in the Making
The docket shows the path to sentencing was anything but swift. A motion filed on Mangum's behalf was denied without prejudice in September 2024 because it lacked the points and authorities required under a local court rule, per the same court records. Sentencing itself was pushed back multiple times, with the hearing continued to May 13, 2026, in Courtroom 6C before Chief Judge Andrew P. Gordon.
Court records and news accounts diverge on exactly how the 14-year prison term will be described going forward. KOLO reported that Mangum will serve 20 years of parole after her release, while the Las Vegas Sun reported the sentence as 168 months in prison followed by 20 years of supervised release. Both outlets agree on the 14-year prison figure and the 20-year length of the post-release term that follows it.
Federal Officials React
First Assistant United States Attorney Sigal Chattah said the Department of Justice is committed to preventing and prosecuting human trafficking and child exploitation cases, the station's report notes. The case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide Department of Justice initiative launched in May 2006 and led by U.S. Attorneys' offices, which marshals federal, state and local resources to locate, apprehend and prosecute people who exploit children and to identify and rescue victims.
The specifics of how Mangum's conduct connects to earlier allegations against a woman of the same name remain unclear. The Las Vegas Review-Journal reported separate arrests and allegations involving minors, including a case in which a Las Vegas woman was charged with sex trafficking two teenage girls.
Part of a Broader Pattern in Nevada
Mangum's sentencing adds to a string of federal child exploitation cases out of the Las Vegas area in recent years. A Las Vegas man was sentenced to 420 months in prison followed by 35 years of supervised release for sexual exploitation of children, coercion and enticement, and possession of child sexual abuse material, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. In a separate case, a Barstow, California, man received 10 years in prison followed by 20 years of supervised release for coercion and enticement involving a 4-year-old girl, per the Justice Department.
Other recent cases have involved sex trafficking of minors. A man was sentenced to nearly 22 years in prison for sex trafficking two minors and bringing them to Las Vegas for commercial sex work, as reported by 8newsnow.com, while a Las Vegas man was sentenced to 10 years in prison for trafficking a 16-year-old girl in San Diego, according to the Department of Justice. The Mangum case now joins that list as another federal case involving child trafficking.
