LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Eleven suspected gang members are facing federal charges for allegedly participating in a massive sex trafficking ring along the Figueroa Corridor in South Los Angeles, prosecutors announced Wednesday.

The alleged victims include young women and teenage girls as young as 14. According to a federal indictment, the crimes occurred over the past four years with the suspected gang members acting as pimps, forcing the alleged victims to perform sex acts in several states across the country.

According to the indictment, the suspects forced the sex trafficking victims to pay them tens of thousands of dollars over the past several years after performing sex acts on men across the country. If they didn't perform as ordered, the indictment alleges the suspects would threaten

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