A 28-year-old Fall River woman awaits sentencing in July after pleading guilty in federal court in Boston last week in a sex trafficking case. 

Christine Parker, known as Lula, was arrested in June, 2024, along with five other people in connection with a sex trafficking conspiracy. 

The U.S. Attorney's Office said Parker used beatings, sleep deprivation and starvation to coerce at least one adult and two minors to engage in repeated commercial sex acts between January and August, 2023.  The scheme ended when one of the minor victims sought help.