Atlanta rapper Cash Out was sentenced to life in prison after a jury found him and other family members guilty of crimes the judge called “diabolical” and “the very worst of human behavior.”

Fulton County Superior Court Judge Melynee Leftridge issued sentences on Monday to the rapper, whose real name is Josh Michael Hakeem Gibson, as well as his mother Linda Smith and cousin Tyrone Taylor.

Prosecutors alleged all three operated a sex trafficking enterprise for more than seven years and used Gibson’s music and brand “through the use of deception and then coercion, enticed and recruited women from social media platforms to engage in commercial sexual activity.”

After a trial that took more than two months, a jury found the trio guilty of violating the state’s Racketeer Influenced and Corr

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