Houston, Tx, United States
Maximino "Chimino" Mondragon and 8 other traffickers worked with Walter Alexander Corea and his son Kerin Silva to smuggle over 120 women, mostly from Central America, into the Houston area and force them to work in brothels. Lorenza Reyes-Nunez, aka "La Comadre," was involved in the trafficking and forced abortions upon women who became pregnant. The others involved include Maximino Mondragon's brother Oscar Mondragon, half brother Victor Omar Lopez and the wives or ex-wives of the Mondragon brothers, Olga Mondragon and Maria Fuentes. They are from El Salvador and Honduras.
Location
United States · Houston, Tx · 2005 (location generalized to protect survivors)
Response & intervention
Authorities raided the apartments where victims were held in November of 2005. 120 victims were liberated at that time.
The Rescue and Restore Campaign and the YMCA were involved in aftercare for these victims
Documented on the original SlaveryMap (2008–2016). We don't have a verifiable source on file yet — use “Report a problem” below to add one.