Judge Denies Bail In Abduction Case

A federal judge denied bail Friday for two men accused of buying a teenage girl for $3,000 and trying to take her and her friend to California to force them into a life of prostitution.

Adam Jermaine Ingram, 20, and Kevin Roy Woods, 18, both of Bellingham, Wash., were arrested by Portland police on Tuesday and charged with violating the federal White Slave Traffic Act. The law, passed in 1948, prohibits transporting minors under 18 across state lines with the intent of engaging in criminal activity.

In an affidavit, FBI Special Agent Marc Beauchemin alleged that Ingram and Woods forced the girls, ages 13 and 14, to have sex with them as they traveled south from Vancouver, British Columbia, on their way to an escort service in San Diego. The girls also were forced to have sex with other men for money, the affidavit said.

Portland police rescued the girls after a man who paid for sex loaned the 13-year-old girl a cellular phone to call her mother. The girl then called 911, and police arrested the men Tuesday.