Overview

• Dominique Terrel Gonzales, 35, was sentenced to 11 years in federal prison and 15 years of supervised release for sex trafficking a minor and exploiting multiple adult women.
• Gonzales coerced victims into prostitution using violence, threats, emotional manipulation, and tracking technology to exert control over their movements and actions.
• Between 2016 and 2019, he forced four adult women into prostitution, and in 2020, he trafficked a 17-year-old girl across state lines to Portland, Oregon, for commercial sex acts.
• U.S. District Judge Benjamin H. Settle condemned Gonzales’s actions as causing profound and lifelong harm to his victims and their families.
• A restitution hearing scheduled for August 2025 will determine financial compensation for the survivors of Gonzales’s trafficking operations.