Vincent George Sr., right, and Vincent George Jr. listen to closing arguments in a courtroom in New York, June 6, 2013. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

by Colleen Long
Associated Press Writer

NEW YORK (AP) — The evidence of sex trafficking was tattooed on the bodies of the prostitutes: Their pimps' names branded onto skin, scrolled across chests and inked onto pelvises, prosecutors said.

They were women so traumatized by their horrible circumstances that they lied on the witness stand to protect their abusers in a criminal trial in Manhattan, prosecutors said during closing arguments Thursday in the case. Three women testified that they begged the father and son team for the tattoos, eager to show their love for the men.

They said they were one big happy family, living a suburban life as "wife-in-laws" in Allentown, Pa., commuting by night about 100 miles to work the Manhattan streets.

Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson answers questions during a news-conference  June 11, 2013, in Cleveland. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)
 

by Thomas Sheeran

 CLEVELAND (AP) — The city fired a police sergeant, demoted two other supervisors and suspended nine more Tuesday for their roles in a chase in which officers fired 137 shots and killed a fleeing driver and his passenger.

Cherelle Baldwin, 21, of Bridgeport, was arrested Monday, June 10. (AP Photo/Bridgeport Police Department)
 
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP) — A woman has been charged with murder after police said she ran down her ex-boyfriend with her car and crushed him against a cinder-block garage wall.

Detroit Police Special Response team Sgt. Anthony Potts Wednesday June 5, in court in Detroit, shows the way to use two hands in holding the MP-5, which is the weapon .(AP Photo/Detroit News, Daniel Mears)
 
by Corey Williams

DETROIT (AP) — Beneath a multi-colored quilt of Disney cartoon characters, 7-year-old Aiyana Stanley-Jones lay peacefully on the living room couch of her grandmother's first-floor flat on Detroit's east side.