An attorney for one of the defendants is asking the judge to dismiss all charges involving "Jane Doe 2," claiming her mother lied under oath about the girl's age. Fourteen of 30 defendants in the

Nine defendants are accused of trafficking children for sex in Minnesota, Ohio and Tennessee. Closing arguments ended Friday after more than two weeks of testimony. Jurors will start deliberations Monday in Nashville.

Closing arguments are starting Wednesday in the trial of nine defendants accused of a sex trafficking conspiracy. Many of the defendants and victims are of Somali descent. The reported crimes stretch from Minnesota to Ohio to Tennessee.

As Minneapolis and Hennepin County fight the sex trafficking they say is facilitated by websites like Backpage.com, they run into an obstacle common around the country: anti-prostitution laws were written to combat brothels and streetwalkers. In an age when the oldest profession is made possible by the newest technology, prosecuting prostitution cases is a challenge.

After several delays the sex trafficking trial is underway in Nashville. In opening arguments prosecutors told jurors they'll hear from a Twin Cities sixth-grader who was forced into prostitution. Defense lawyers say the girl is a runaway who engaged in sex willingly and then concocted the story.

The case involved nine of the 30 defendants accused of conspiracy to commit sex trafficking of juveniles in Minnesota, Ohio and Tennessee. After five days of deliberations in Nashville, jurors found three men from the Twin Cities guilty and they could be sentenced to life.

Two Women from Rochester are on trial for allegedly funneling thousands of dollars to a known terrorist group in Somalia. The defendants say they were only trying to help their homeland and did not know al-Shabab was engaged in terrorism there.