[stars & stripes forever]

He intended to marry her.

Sex-trafficking?

[presently no screen name]

I think you are on to something. Wonder how closely they are watching him now or even his past.

[rdcbn]

Sex trafficing ?

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Possibly.

It's also very probable that he was intending to marry her.
It's just that it would have been a short honeymoon and he would have ended up a widower