Post by Moses on Apr 6, 2005 22:49:33 GMT -5
This is about New York, but there are other places that should be busting these Mexican sex trafficers. Las Vegas, e.g. It is blatant there.
Sex-Trafficking Pleas Detail Abuse of Mexican Women
By WILLIAM GLABERSON
Published: April 6, 2005
O[/size]ne of the men tried to stab a young Mexican woman he had forced into prostitution in New York, using the jagged edge of a bottle he had broken over her head. Another forced his girlfriend to have an abortion, saying it was necessary so he could keep selling her to men in Brooklyn and Queens. A third told his own wife that he would kill her family back in Mexico if she did not continue to service more than 20 men a night.
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Such were the accounts prosecutors were preparing to present yesterday in Brooklyn federal court in what they said was one of the federal government's largest sex-trafficking cases in the United States. But the evidence was so overwhelming, said lawyers for the three young Mexican men who were charged, that all three pleaded guilty to all 27 counts against them.
The prosecutors' filings and the men's emotionless descriptions of their business - preying on vulnerable Mexican women - offered a glimpse yesterday into one of the city's netherworlds, a harrowing place most New Yorkers never see.
"I smuggled these women to New York from Mexico so they could engage in prostitution," one of the men, Josue Flores Carreto, 37, told Judge Frederic Block, through an interpreter. His brother Gerardo Flores Carreto, 35, added, "I assaulted them physically for disobeying my orders in reference to the prostitution jobs."
Prosecutors said the third man, Daniel Perez Alonso, 26, wrote that his job of luring young women was like "recruiting fillies for a race."
The three men, all of them slightly built, could be sent to prison for more than 30 years. They pleaded guilty, their lawyers said, hoping for leniency.
The prosecutors, Daniel R. Alonso and Anne Milgram, described the Carreto family's business as a sprawling operation with roots in the central Mexico town of Tenancingo, stretching as far back as the late 1980's. Consuelo Carreto Valencia, the mother of the two brothers who pleaded guilty, is being held in Mexico on related sex trafficking charges.
In Mexico and New York, prosecutors said in a filing, family members "would recruit young, uneducated women and girls from impoverished areas of Mexico and use some combination of deception, fraud, coercion, rape, forced abortion, threats and violence to compel them to prostitute themselves."
The three men said yesterday that they gave none of the money earned from the prostitution to the women. The prosecutors identified eight women who had been forced into prostitution, but said they knew of many more.
As prosecutors described it, the path to sexual slavery usually began with seduction and sometimes included marriage. There were, at the beginning, gifts, including chocolates, a stuffed teddy bear and roses. Some women were told they would have jobs in New York restaurants or laundries.
One of the women the prosecutors described was 17 when she met Josue Carreto at a pastry shop in Tenancingo. Soon, prosecutors said, she had married him and had a child. But, they said, she was only one of four women who bore his children and were forced into prostitution with threats, beatings and coercion.
The investigation of the Carretos began in the summer of 2003, the prosecutors said, when someone filed a complaint at the United States Embassy in Mexico City, saying members of the family were forcing young Mexican women into sexual slavery in New York.
In January 2004, federal agents raided two apartments used by the family in Corona, Queens, where they found condoms, advertisements for prostitution services and five young Mexican women.
At least until yesterday, the prosecutors said, Josue Carreto did not acknowledge that he had done anything wrong. From a Brooklyn jail where he awaited trial, they said, he called a young Mexican woman he had never met some 60 times.
The calls were secretly recorded. He told her she interested him, the prosecutors said. He sent her money. He asked her to wait for him. He called her "the queen of my love." His last call to her was last month.
Sex-Trafficking Pleas Detail Abuse of Mexican Women
By WILLIAM GLABERSON
Published: April 6, 2005
O[/size]ne of the men tried to stab a young Mexican woman he had forced into prostitution in New York, using the jagged edge of a bottle he had broken over her head. Another forced his girlfriend to have an abortion, saying it was necessary so he could keep selling her to men in Brooklyn and Queens. A third told his own wife that he would kill her family back in Mexico if she did not continue to service more than 20 men a night.
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Such were the accounts prosecutors were preparing to present yesterday in Brooklyn federal court in what they said was one of the federal government's largest sex-trafficking cases in the United States. But the evidence was so overwhelming, said lawyers for the three young Mexican men who were charged, that all three pleaded guilty to all 27 counts against them.
The prosecutors' filings and the men's emotionless descriptions of their business - preying on vulnerable Mexican women - offered a glimpse yesterday into one of the city's netherworlds, a harrowing place most New Yorkers never see.
"I smuggled these women to New York from Mexico so they could engage in prostitution," one of the men, Josue Flores Carreto, 37, told Judge Frederic Block, through an interpreter. His brother Gerardo Flores Carreto, 35, added, "I assaulted them physically for disobeying my orders in reference to the prostitution jobs."
Prosecutors said the third man, Daniel Perez Alonso, 26, wrote that his job of luring young women was like "recruiting fillies for a race."
The three men, all of them slightly built, could be sent to prison for more than 30 years. They pleaded guilty, their lawyers said, hoping for leniency.
The prosecutors, Daniel R. Alonso and Anne Milgram, described the Carreto family's business as a sprawling operation with roots in the central Mexico town of Tenancingo, stretching as far back as the late 1980's. Consuelo Carreto Valencia, the mother of the two brothers who pleaded guilty, is being held in Mexico on related sex trafficking charges.
In Mexico and New York, prosecutors said in a filing, family members "would recruit young, uneducated women and girls from impoverished areas of Mexico and use some combination of deception, fraud, coercion, rape, forced abortion, threats and violence to compel them to prostitute themselves."
The three men said yesterday that they gave none of the money earned from the prostitution to the women. The prosecutors identified eight women who had been forced into prostitution, but said they knew of many more.
As prosecutors described it, the path to sexual slavery usually began with seduction and sometimes included marriage. There were, at the beginning, gifts, including chocolates, a stuffed teddy bear and roses. Some women were told they would have jobs in New York restaurants or laundries.
One of the women the prosecutors described was 17 when she met Josue Carreto at a pastry shop in Tenancingo. Soon, prosecutors said, she had married him and had a child. But, they said, she was only one of four women who bore his children and were forced into prostitution with threats, beatings and coercion.
The investigation of the Carretos began in the summer of 2003, the prosecutors said, when someone filed a complaint at the United States Embassy in Mexico City, saying members of the family were forcing young Mexican women into sexual slavery in New York.
In January 2004, federal agents raided two apartments used by the family in Corona, Queens, where they found condoms, advertisements for prostitution services and five young Mexican women.
At least until yesterday, the prosecutors said, Josue Carreto did not acknowledge that he had done anything wrong. From a Brooklyn jail where he awaited trial, they said, he called a young Mexican woman he had never met some 60 times.
The calls were secretly recorded. He told her she interested him, the prosecutors said. He sent her money. He asked her to wait for him. He called her "the queen of my love." His last call to her was last month.