Posted on 01/11/2009 1:07:07 PM PST by DogByte6RER
Guatemalan girl describes alleged enforced prostitution
She testifies in federal court how a group of immigrants duped her into coming to the U.S., forced her to sell herself and kept her captive.
By Scott Glover
January 9, 2009
When Sandra agreed to make the perilous trek from her native Guatemala to the United States in 2006, she said, she was lured by the prospect of a job as a housekeeper that would enable her to send money to her impoverished family back home.
Her father had a hernia that prevented him from working, and money was so tight that she and her 12 siblings sometimes didn't have shoes or enough to eat, the young woman testified Thursday in federal court in Los Angeles.
But not long after Sandra was delivered to L.A. by human-smuggling "coyotes," she learned that the job awaiting her had nothing to do with cleaning houses.
Instead, she said, she was told that she would have to "lay with men."
"Did you understand you were going to be working as a prostitute?" asked Assistant U.S. Atty. Cheryl Murphy.
"I did not know what that word was," Sandra responded through a Spanish-language translator. "Now I do."
Sandra's last name was not disclosed in court because she is the alleged victim of a sex crime and because prosecutors contend she is a minor.
She went on to testify how she was held captive, beaten, raped and forced to have sex with as many as 10 men a day by a group of fellow immigrants. She was the first in a string of young women to testify in what is expected to be a weeks-long trial before U.S. District Judge Margaret M. Morrow.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
I would bet that the response to this outrageous news by the open border freaks would be "¡Sí se puede!"
I think that President-Elect Barack Hussein Obama's response to this news report would also be "Yes we can!"
This is just tremendously sad. I can’t even joke about it.
Pinging...
As I remember, I think this topic is a hot button one for you.
It’s a tragic story and a travesty...
Forced to do the jobs Americans won’t do?
Sick.
what a shame.
We could reduce crime 90% in the US tomorrow if we had the will. But we are too compassionate. We would rather let the innocent suffer that directly confront the guilty. Sick.
Make that “THAN directly confront the guilty”.
I agree with you.
we need to bring back public hanging in America
I hold President Bush responsible for this slave trade.
Wonder where the bleeding hearts are on this one.
I must have missed their march in the streets on this one.
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Tonight Terry will say...
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>>Wonder where the bleeding hearts are on this one.
I must have missed their march in the streets on this one.<<
They are protesting “inhumane” illegal alien facilities and pushing for the release of illegals on the “honor system” while they are waiting to be processed. Which would seem to encourage importing people for prostitution.
Some of her fellow travelers:
Guatemalan Immigrants demand US discontinue ICE roundups, E-Verify, identity theft charges
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2163799/posts
“So how do you stop this behavior? Make the punishment so horrendous that it isn’t worth the risk.”
But instead, the aliens are demanding we do NOT enforce our laws.
Guatemalan Immigrants demand US discontinue ICE roundups, E-Verify, identity theft charges
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2163799/posts
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