{"id":586573,"date":"2021-07-08T18:35:17","date_gmt":"2021-07-08T22:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=586573"},"modified":"2021-07-08T18:35:20","modified_gmt":"2021-07-08T22:35:20","slug":"fact-check-was-actress-allison-mack-sentenced-to-three-years-in-prison-for-kidnapping-children-and-forcing-them-to-be-sex-slaves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-was-actress-allison-mack-sentenced-to-three-years-in-prison-for-kidnapping-children-and-forcing-them-to-be-sex-slaves\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Was Actress Allison Mack Sentenced To Three Years In Prison For \u2018Kidnapping Children And Forcing Them To Be Sex Slaves\u2019?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">44<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffact-check-was-actress-allison-mack-sentenced-to-three-years-in-prison-for-kidnapping-children-and-forcing-them-to-be-sex-slaves%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=586573&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Allison-Mack-scaled-e1625781104792.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>An image <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo?fbid=2959599754317217&amp;set=a.1678162539127618\">shared on Facebook<\/a> claims actress Allison Mack was sentenced to three years in prison for \u201ckidnapping children and forcing them to be sex slaves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Verdict: False<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Mack was sentenced to three years in prison after pleading guilty to racketeering and racketeering conspiracy, according to a Department of Justice spokesperson. She was not charged or convicted of kidnapping or sex trafficking children.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Mack, an American actress best known for her role as Chloe Sullivan in the TV series \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0279600\/\">Smallville<\/a>,\u201d was arrested in 2018 for her involvement as a high-ranking member of the sex-cult NXIVM, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/06\/30\/us\/allison-mack-sentencing\/index.html\">CNN<\/a> reported. NXIVM was founded in Albany, New York, and claimed to be a \u201cself-help organization,\u201d according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/article\/nxivm-timeline.html\">The New York Times<\/a>. Mack was sentenced June 30 to three years in prison after pleading guilty in 2019 to racketeering and racketeering conspiracy, the outlet reported.<\/p>\n<p>A July 1 Facebook post includes a photo of Mack along with text reading, \u201cChloe from \u2018Smallville\u2019 gets 3 years in prison for kidnapping children and forcing them to be sex slaves.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2020\/06\/05\/fact-check-ellen-degeneres-house-arrest-child-sex-trafficking-hoax\/\">(RELATED: No, Ellen DeGeneres Isn\u2019t Under House Arrest For Child Sex Trafficking)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>While Mack was initially charged with \u201csex trafficking, sex trafficking conspiracy and forced labor conspiracy,\u201d according to a April 2018 Department of Justice&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-edny\/pr\/founder-nxivm-purported-self-help-organization-and-actor-indicted-sex-trafficking-and\">press release<\/a>, she was not convicted of these crimes. She was never charged for trafficking minors,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/john-marzulli-373182144\">John Marzulli<\/a>, a public information officer for the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office in the Eastern District of New York, told Check Your Fact in an email.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAllison Mack was charged with sex trafficking (by force, fraud or coercion),\u201d said Marzulli. \u201cShe pleaded guilty to racketeering and racketeering conspiracy, not sex trafficking, but admitted to the conduct in her plea agreement. She was NOT charged with trafficking minors and she was definitely NOT charged with \u2018kidnapping children and forcing them to be sex slaves.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The details of Mack\u2019s plea agreement were reported on by several media outlets, such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/04\/08\/entertainment\/allison-mack-guilty-plea\/index.html\">CNN<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/crime-courts\/actress-allison-mack-plead-guilty-role-alleged-new-york-sex-n992091\">NBC News<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/04\/08\/nyregion\/nxivm-allison-mack.html\">The New York Times<\/a> at the time of its signing. None of these outlets reported she pleaded guilty to \u201ckidnapping children.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mack will begin serving her three-year sentence in September, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/article\/nxivm-timeline.html\">The New York Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An image shared on Facebook claims actress Allison Mack was sentenced to three years in prison for \u201ckidnapping children and forcing them to be sex slaves.\u201dVerdict: False Mack was sentenced &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2314307,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Allison-Mack-scaled-e1625781104792.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"FACT CHECK: Was Actress Allison Mack Sentenced To Three Years In Prison For \u2018Kidnapping Children And Forcing Them To Be Sex Slaves\u2019?","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-586573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Allison-Mack-scaled-e1625781104792.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"FACT CHECK: Was Actress Allison Mack Sentenced To Three Years In Prison For \u2018Kidnapping Children And Forcing Them To Be Sex Slaves\u2019?","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=586573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2314307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}