A trans-identified male has been indicted for his role in an apparent child sex trafficking operation in Savannah, Georgia. Devonte Reaquwwan Milton, also known as Zariah McKenny, already had a history of child sex offenses and violent crime when he was arrested.
The case first came to the attention of authorities in September of 2025, when a HOPE Court liaison learned that a minor was believed to be engaging in commercial sex acts. The investigator said the 16-year-old had been advertised on a prostitution website under a false age.
Court records seen by Reduxx suggest that the child victim is a male who also identifies as transgender.
Under Georgia law, anyone under 18 engaging in commercial sex acts is considered a victim of human trafficking. Georgia Code § 16-5-46 classifies the acts as trafficking a person for labor or sexual servitude.
During the investigation, authorities obtained a search warrant for a TextNow app account which revealed approximately 15,000 text messages sent over a two-month period. The texts were primarily related to arranging the child to be sexually abused by clientele, including pricing and locations.
While details on the case are limited at this stage, Milton is believed to have facilitated the trafficking of the child directly. He was originally arrested in March on charges of contributing to the delinquency of a minor after it was learned he had given the victim alcohol, but the Chatham County Sheriff’s Office later upgraded the charges to trafficking a person for sexual servitude and influencing witnesses. According to the indictment seen by Reduxx, Milton contacted the victim in late March in an attempt to deter the minor from testifying against him.
Milton has a lengthy criminal history, including for aggravated assault, cruelty to children, and robbery by intimidation. He is also a registered sex offender, having been convicted of child sexual exploitation and child pornography in 2021. According to the Georgia Department of Corrections, he was supposed to serve 20 years in prison for his child sex offenses but was released after just three months with credit for time served. He was ordered to spend the rest on probation, which wasn’t set to expire until 2041. As a result, he has also been charged with three counts of violating his probation.
According to the Chatham County Sheriff’s Office, Milton is being held in protective custody on the female side of the Chatham County Jail while the case goes through the court system. He is listed as a “male” in the Georgia Department of Corrections database, but some media outlets, such as the Savannah Morning News, referred to him as a “woman” in their reporting of the case.
In addition to Milton, three prospective ‘clients’ – Michael Holsey, Kevin Joyner, and Antonio White – were also arrested in the course of the investigation, all of whom met the minor victim through arrangements for sexual services made on TextNow. All three claimed they believed the victim was of age. A fourth man who was detained in connection to the case, James Sinclair, has since bonded out.
Milton is the second known transgender child sex trafficker in the state of Georgia. The other, Christopher Thomas Lynch, is currently serving a 14-year sentence for trafficking multiple minors.
As previously reported by Reduxx, Lynch was first taken into custody on March 4, 2011 for a number of sexual offenses.
A drag queen incarcerated for his role in a child sex trafficking ring was given a platform in @thisisinsider to complain about his sentence in a male prison.
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Christina Alicia Lynch plied vulnerable teenage boys with cocaine for "sexual servitude."https://t.co/BU0L1W7N2x
Among the charges was an indictment for knowingly harboring a child for the purposes of sexual servitude. He was ultimately convicted on two counts of sexual exploitation of a child, pandering by compulsion, possession of drug-related items, and one count of pimping a minor – which was reduced from human trafficking during a plea deal. He was released on parole in 2018, but quickly rearrested after violating his conditions.
Lynch and his boyfriend, Steven Lemery, had run an exploitation ring in which they used social media to lure gay and transgender teenage boys for the purposes of forcing them into the sex trade. Lemery, who was a go-go dancer at a gay club, was in a polyamorous relationship with Lynch, as well as a woman and her boyfriend. There were multiple small children residing in the home where the abuses took place.
While in prison, Lynch became a vocal trans activist and even had an article published in Insider in which he lamented the conditions for “trans women” in prison.
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