The Case of Alexis Ke'Erica Martin

📻 Episode #574
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 May 21, 2026

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About This Episode

15 year-old Alexis Ke’Erica Martin was aware that her ex-boyfriend was about to free her from sex trafficker, Angelo Kerney, but didn’t know that Kerney was about to be killed. Ohio’s brand new safe harbor law should have protected this inspiring survivor.

The Case

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00:04:19
“Speaker 1: outcome that they felt comfortable delivering. Speaker 3: Alexis Kierka Martin was raised by her grandmother in Akron, Ohio, Speaker 3: and had a strained relationship with her birth mother and father. Speaker 3: She had a boyfriend, Deshaun Spear, but they broke up Speaker 3: around age thirteen, the same time that an older man”

00:17:10
“Speaker 5: this question. My attorney, I can't even remember. He mustered Speaker 5: up some answer, but it clearly must not have been Speaker 5: good enough for Teodosia, because two months later, even after Speaker 5: you admit that I'm traffic I got bound over and Speaker 5: that made me feel like prior to the trafficking, I”

00:29:08
“Speaker 4: are unfairly sentenced and unfairly incarcerated. And if people want Speaker 4: to learn more about Key's case, or about similar cases, Speaker 4: or about our work, our website is Ohio JPC dot org. Speaker 4: So Ohio Justice Policy Center JPC dot org. Those are Speaker 4: two distinct ways people can help key and then also”

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