Potosi Man Charged In Sex Trafficking Investigation

(Washington County, MO) A Potosi man, 38 year old, Vincent S. Price Jr. is being charged with four counts of sexual trafficking a child in the first degree and four counts of child molestation in the first degree after an investigation by the Potosi Police Department concluded Friday, March 10th. According to a press release from the Washington County Prosecuting Attorney's Office, Price, on four separate occasions between October 1, 2019 and February 16, 2021, directed two unidentified minor females to hold down the victim, a child less than 12 years of age  and touch the child inappropriately while Price watched. If you have any information concerning the identities of the two minor females, please contact the Potosi Police Department or the Washington County Prosecutor's Office. This case is being prosecuted by the Washington County Prosecuting Attorney John I. Jones, IV, and First Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Caleb J. Aponte.