{"id":4065,"date":"2019-10-18T08:06:50","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T08:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.hopetoheal.org.za\/staging\/?p=4065"},"modified":"2019-10-18T08:06:50","modified_gmt":"2019-10-18T08:06:50","slug":"693-bodiesall-black-white-s-c-man-accused-of-trafficking-kidnapping-underage-girls-for-sex-withdraws-request-for-bond-may-have-more-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.hopetoheal.org.za\/staging\/2019\/10\/18\/693-bodiesall-black-white-s-c-man-accused-of-trafficking-kidnapping-underage-girls-for-sex-withdraws-request-for-bond-may-have-more-victims\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018693 Bodies\u2026All Black\u2019: White S.C. Man Accused of Trafficking, Kidnapping Underage Girls for Sex Withdraws Request for Bond, May Have More Victims"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By\u00a0Tanasia Kenney<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A popular South Carolina promoter and disc jockey appeared in court Monday on human trafficking and child sex crimes charges, Florence station WBTW reported.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jason Roger Pope<\/strong>, 42, remains in jail without bond after withdrawing his request for a bond hearing. Pope\u2019s attorney, Mary Parham, didn\u2019t give a reason for the withdrawal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jason Roger Pope (left) appeared in court Monday, where his attorney unexpectedly withdrew his request for a bond hearing. (Photo: WBTW \/ video screenshot) <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The local DJ,  who was arrested in August, faces three counts of trafficking in persons, three counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct and a count each of kidnapping, second-degree criminal sexual conduct with a minor, and promoting the prostitution of a minor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Arrest warrants obtained by WMBF News<\/a> show that between July 2017 and July 2019, police say Pope forced four underaged girls to perform sex acts at his home. A 17-year-old victim told police that he gave her money, drugs and\/or other items in exchange for sex.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the suspect\u2019s victims is listed as young as 13.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI suspected a long time ago that things weren\u2019t right over there because of who he had coming in and out,\u201d said a longtime neighbor of Pope\u2019s, who recalled several young-looking girls stopping by the home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey looked like they were very young, underage maybe,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Photos posted to the suspect\u2019s Facebook page,\u00a0which is still active<\/a>, shows Pope posing and partying with mostly young African-American women in an album titled, \u201cDJ KID (PARTIES & GIRLS \u2014 Part 1).\u201d In one of the pictures, he\u2019s seen grabbing a young woman by the buttocks as she straddles him in her underwear. He pulls another girl\u2019s pants down in a separate photo, exposing her thong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to a Facebook screenshot, Pope reportedly once bragged that \u201cI\u2019m 36 with 693 BODIES (All Black females), WBU?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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(Photos: Jason Roger Pope \/ Facebook page)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In September, the party promoter reportedly sexually assaulted a 16-year-old, identified in arrest warrants as \u201cA.B.\u201d He is accused of paying the teen for sex. A similar incident occurred months earlier when a 14-year-old also claimed Pope paid her to have sex with him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The allegations didn\u2019t stop there, however.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2011, Florence County deputies responded to a sexual misconduct call at a hospital where a 13-year-old girl said she had unprotected sex with Pope and later found out he was said to have had AIDS. She said a friend introduced her to the DJ, who gave her alcohol and drugs, per an account TV station WMBF gave of the report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Screenshot: Jason Hope\u2019s charges<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The suspect allegedly assaulted a second victim that same day, who told deputies she too feared she had contracted AIDS from the man, the station said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Those cases apparently were resolved without charges, but how and why that happened remain unclear. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2018, Pope was charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor but he pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of two counts of cruelty to children, WMBF News reported<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although Pope is now behind bars, authorities believe there may be several more victims.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By\u00a0Tanasia Kenney A popular South Carolina promoter and disc jockey appeared in court Monday on human trafficking and child sex crimes charges, Florence station WBTW reported. Jason Roger Pope, 42, remains in jail without bond after withdrawing his request for a bond hearing. Pope\u2019s attorney, Mary Parham, didn\u2019t give a reason for the withdrawal. The local […]\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4066,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"tpgb_global_settings":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[39,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-human-trafficking","category-news"],"tpgb_featured_images":{"full":["https:\/\/site.hopetoheal.org.za\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Untitled-30-600x373.png",600,373,false],"tp-image-grid":["https:\/\/site.hopetoheal.org.za\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Untitled-30-600x373.png",600,373,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/site.hopetoheal.org.za\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Untitled-30-600x373-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/site.hopetoheal.org.za\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Untitled-30-600x373-300x187.png",300,187,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/site.hopetoheal.org.za\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Untitled-30-600x373.png",600,373,false],"large":["https:\/\/site.hopetoheal.org.za\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Untitled-30-600x373.png",600,373,false],"default":"https:\/\/site.hopetoheal.org.za\/staging\/wp-content\/plugins\/the-plus-addons-for-block-editor\/assets\/images\/tpgb-placeholder.jpg"},"tpgb_post_meta_info":{"get_date":"October 18, 2019","get_modified_date":"October 18, 2019","category_list":{"category":[{"term_id":39,"name":"Human Trafficking","slug":"human-trafficking","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":39,"taxonomy":"category","description":"Human Trafficking News and Updates","parent":0,"count":61,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":19,"name":"News","slug":"news","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":19,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":238,"filter":"raw"}],"post_tag":false,"post_format":false},"author_name":"Hope To Heal","author_url":"https:\/\/site.hopetoheal.org.za\/staging\/author\/hope2233\/","author_email":"webmaster@hopetoheal.org.za","author_website":"","author_description":"Our mission is for women and children to live free from violence and abuse and to provide quality, compassionate, and nonjudgmental services in a manner that fosters self-respect and independence in persons experiencing domestic violence and child abuse and to lead the struggle to end domestic violence through advocacy and community education.","author_facebook":"","author_twitter":"","author_instagram":"","author_role":["administrator"],"author_firstname":"Hope To","author_lastname":"Heal Foundation","user_login":"Hope2233","author_avatar":"","author_avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/00ba9733f71edb9653d7f34fee6719bfc21db4d30ee7e9a8d61ac758d1032f46?s=96&d=mm&r=g","comment_count":0,"post_likes":0,"post_views":0},"tpgb_post_category":{"category":"Human Trafficking<\/a> News<\/a> "},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.hopetoheal.org.za\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.hopetoheal.org.za\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.hopetoheal.org.za\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.hopetoheal.org.za\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.hopetoheal.org.za\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4065"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.hopetoheal.org.za\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4067,"href":"https:\/\/site.hopetoheal.org.za\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4065\/revisions\/4067"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.hopetoheal.org.za\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.hopetoheal.org.za\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.hopetoheal.org.za\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.hopetoheal.org.za\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}