BATON ROUGE - A woman was arrested Thursday after she allegedly trafficked a 15-year-old girl across southeast Louisiana with the help of her boyfriend in New Orleans.

Officers were called to the Super 8 Motel off of Sherwood Forest Boulevard just after 7 p.m. It was there that the 15-year-old told police she was being sex trafficked by the women living with her, according to police records. The girl said she was brought to Baton Rouge to "make money" from the upcoming Southern University Homecoming.

Police arrested Timara Courtney, 22, who originally claimed that she barely knew the girl. Courtney told police that they originally met in New Orleans with friends, and were only living together in Baton Rouge because the girl offered to keep her company.

She later told police that the two

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