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Sex Trafficking in Bensonhurst, New York (2009)

A sex trafficking case from 2009 in Bensonhurst, New York, United States. 1 source on file.

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What happened

Agents arrested a 33 yrs old, who was described as an illegal alien who had been deported to Mexico after being arrested in a similar sex trafficking case. Sources said he returned to the US and ran a new trafficking ring that brought in several unwitting women from Mexico to become prostitutes. While in Mexico he began a romantic relationship with the teen and later paid a smuggler to bring her to the US in April 2007.

Response and intervention

federal agents raided an apartment (the trafficker had refused the victim to take their sick baby to a hospital and the baby died) federal agents raided an apartment on 40th Street in Sunset Park Sources said the victim, now in protective custody, had knife wounds, black eyes, broken fingers and broken bones in her hand when rescued. Sources said the woman, now in protective custody, had knife wounds, black eyes, broken fingers and broken bones in her hand when rescued. not known the article http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/sex_slave_horror_in_brooklyn_CEGkfe3tgwnKLtlmVb1FkI#ixzz0Zk3bQO41

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