Two Gadsden women among five arrested in Tuscaloosa sex sting

A Gadsden woman faces a first-degree human trafficking charge after a prostitution sting in Tuscaloosa on Wednesday.  She was one of five women arrested on prostitution-related charges after an investigation by the Tuscaloosa Police Department.  The women solicited prostitution on the Internet and were arrested at several hotels, according to Tuscaloosa Police Capt. Brad Mason.  28 year old Jessica Lynette McCurdy,  of Gadsden: charged with first-degree human trafficking.  Details about her charge were not immediately released, but according to state law, people can be charged with human trafficking if “they subject a person to servitude or sexual servitude or labor through coercion or deception, or she knowingly obtains, recruits, entices, solicits, induces, threatens, isolates, harbors, holds, restrains, transports, provides, or maintains any minor for the purpose of causing a minor to engage in sexual servitude.”  21 year old Jessica Nicole Stanford,  of Gadsden: charged with second-degree promoting prostitution.

. McCurdy’s bond was set at $10,000 and Stanford’s was set at $2,500.

An investigator with the U.S. Internal Revenue Service assisted in the investigation,