NEW BEDFORD — A Dorchester man is being held without bail for allegedly sex trafficking a woman out of a Freetown home.

Curtis Wigfall-Bradford, 31, was arraigned Thursday on charges of trafficking of a person for sexual servitude, kidnapping, deriving support from prostitution, assault and battery on family/household member-subsequent, and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon in New Bedford District Court.

State troopers and Freetown Police arrested Wigfall-Bradford on Wednesday morning at 35 Washburn Road in East Freetown, where he was living with the victim and another woman following an investigation, police said.

Woman alleged four to five ‘dates’ on days she worked

State police did not name the victim in the police report, but refer to her as victim #1.

The victim said she had four to five “dates” per day at the home on the days when she was working.

State police said the victim’s availability was advertised on commercialized sex websites with photos.

They were able to track some of the ads through a law enforcement database called “Spotlight.”

State police typed ‘Freetown’ into database to find sex ads

They typed “Freetown” into the search bar and came up with some of the ads, the most recent being from Sept. 24. They said that there had been 408 posts in Massachusetts, Florida, and Georgia since April 30.

The victim told state police they had gone on vacations to Florida, Atlanta, New Jersey and New York at various times.

The victim is in her early 20s, but has a mental capacity in the 13-year-old range, according to a past police report.

The victim told police she was originally from Chicago, and had been in the Boston area for nine months to a year.

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Woman said defendant ‘saved’ her

She had been working as a prostitute in Boston, she said, when Curtis Wigfall-Bradford and the other woman he was living with “saved” her.

She said she was going to be sold.

They took her to the Freetown address, which she thought was in Taunton. She worked as a prostitute at the address for a period of about six months, and was not allowed to leave, she said, although they did visit the defendant’s mother in Dorchester multiple times.

Given drugs and beaten, according to police report

She said she was given drugs, and was also beaten, including with belts.

They were returning from one of those visits to Dorchester when she escaped, she said.

She said Wigfall-Bradford was mad at her for taking too large a “scoop” of drugs and thought she might overdose.

Woman jumped out of car on Route 24

To escape, they jumped out of their car on Route 24 southbound in Stoughton on Sept. 25 at around 10:30 am

She was brought to Good Samaritan Hospital in Brockton by emergency personnel, where she told the medical staff that she was possibly involved in human trafficking, police said. She had not mentioned it at the accident site.

Hospital staff called state police, who interviewed her at the hospital and began the investigation.

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Wigfall-Bradford was on probation, had served time for kidnapping

State police said Wigfall-Bradford was currently on probation out of Dorchester District Court for possession of a firearm, possession of ammunition, and possession of a class A substance.

The police report also states that Wigfall-Bradford had been found guilty in 2019 and served time for kidnapping, intimidation, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, and malicious destruction of property.

His record also includes several unrelated arraignments for assault and battery, domestic violence, and property crimes, according to state police.

Wigfall-Bradford is due back in court on Nov. 1 for a probable cause hearing.

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