Man Caught In Sting Wanted To Cannibalize Child Sex Slave: Police

GREENVILLE, SC — A Myrtle Beach man police said wanted to turn a child into a sex slave and then “physically cannibalize” her posted bond and has been released from jail, according to court records. Justin Teeter Bensing, 36, was among 43 people arrested last month in a sex trafficking sting operation by the Greenville County Sheriff’s Office.

In arrest warrants, police said Bensing asked an undercover officer he thought was a child if she was “ready to be a full-time baby maker and sex slave.” He and the others arrested showed up at an arranged location with the intent of having sex with children, investigators said.

Bensing is charged with two counts of criminal solicitation of a minor and faces 10 years in prison on each charge if convicted.

Besides the disturbing comments Bensing is accused of making about cannibalizing the girl, investigators said he spoke of multiple sexual fetishes in online conversations under the screen name of “Rebel Deese,” WHNS-TV reported.

Another man arrested in the sting operation planned to kidnap and sell a 14-year-old girl in Myrtle Beach, Greenville County Sheriff Will Lewis said. Another man arrested admitted to having sexually transmitted diseases and “wanted to actually give a child a disease,” Lewis said.

“This is beyond the worst type of human being,” Lewis said at a news conference announcing the arrests, according to a WYFF-TV report. “They are looking for, actively stalking children, for the purpose of kidnapping, killing, cannibalize, trafficking.

“Every single child is a potential victim with one person like this in their community,” he said.

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In the sting operation, called “Operation Millstone,” investigators arrested and accused 14 child predators, two human traffickers identified as a husband and wife, 10 prostitutes and 17 johns, the sheriff’s office said last week. Two victims of human trafficking were rescued.

Operation Millstone is a reference to a verse in the New Testament book of Matthew that reads: “If anyone causes one of these little ones — those who believe in me — to stumble, it would be better for them to have a large millstone hung around their neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea.”

The investigation is ongoing to root out more than 30 other suspects whose online activity indicated they wanted to have sex with a girl they believed to be 14. The activity included searching for or sending sexually explicit pictures to the girl, the sheriff said.

Human trafficking is a growing problem in Upstate South Carolina, especially along the Interstate 85 corridor to Atlanta, one of the top cities in the United States for human trafficking, according to Zaina Greene, executive director of SWITCH, an Upstate South Carolina nonprofit group that fights sex trafficking and sexual exploitation.

"We see a lot of family situations where mom and dad or aunt and uncle or someone in the family is even trafficking a child, and they're still going to school every day,” Greene told WYFF. “Then at night they're being sold and then they go back to school the next day.”

She said SWITCH is working with the two victims rescued in Operation Millstone.

"Even though it's so hard to watch and see what these women have been through, we're thankful that we're able to give them hope," she said.

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