Four charged with trafficking of girls - Fort Worth brothel case/Underaged Prostitution

The Dallas Morning News ^ | May 30, 2002 | By TODD BENSMAN / The Dallas Morning News

[MeekOneGOP]

Four charged with trafficking of girls

05/30/2002

By TODD BENSMAN / The Dallas Morning News

Federal authorities in Dallas are holding four Hondurans on charges related to a human-trafficking ring run out of a Fort Worth brothel, according to court records released Wednesday.

Charged in a federal criminal complaint with conspiracy to harbor aliens are Dino Antonio Molina, 32; Dilicia Suyapa Molina, 27; Roger Galindo-Sepeda, 28; and Maria Isabel Cruz, 34.

The two men and two women were among up to 90 people, rounded up in FBI raids May 16, who were part of an international inquiry into allegations that at least six underage girls had been forced into prostitution.

According to a search warrant affidavit unsealed Wednesday, as many as 26 young women and girls were held at a time at several houses and apartments in Fort Worth.

The document says the suspects are accused of smuggling the women and girls from Honduras to work at bars and nightclubs they controlled.

Guards often were posted at the residences, and the victims were escorted wherever they went and their conversations were monitored, the affidavit said.

Attorneys for the four suspects could not be found Wednesday. A detention hearing for the four suspects is scheduled for Friday before U.S. Magistrate Judge Charles Bleil in Fort Worth.

E-mail tbensman@dallasnews.com

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[MeekOneGOP]

Bizarre.

[CatoRenasci]

What's bizarre about it? This sort of this goes on all the time, all over the world. Evil? Yes. Trafficking in women for prostitution has long been a mob stable and is now a staple of the eastern european and russian mobs. Very bad.

[Dialup Llama]

The lovely traditions of the third world are coming to our shores.

[Blood of Tyrants]

My wife just visited an Baptist run orphanage in Honduras just two weeks ago where they (the people who run the orphanage) had literally snatched 4 teenage girls from a man who claimed he was taking them to be "adopted" somewhere in Europe.

Slavery is alive and well.

[Francohio]

You just wait until our friendly and colorful allies from the Clinton-Albright-Holbrooke era, the Albanians, get wind of this outrage.

Bubba personally promised them that this was THEIR turf.

[Clemenza]

Nope. This was a first world tradition brought by Europeans to the Americas. The "white slave trade" was very big with Jewish and Italian mobsters at the turn of the last century.

[FITZ]

least six underage girls had been forced into prostitution.

Political correctness will force us to respect that in other cultures there is no "underage" when it comes to prostitution and all immigrants come here to work hard at jobs that Americans won't do.

[Lorianne]

They were always here.

[VOA]

Bizarre.

Not really.
All you have to do is watch the "Cops" episodes on FOX; despite all the selfless
work of the Fort Worth Police, there are "undesirables", just like in
any city.

This may be a new trend to DFW, but perhaps the only reason we're hearing about it
is good police work and/or an informant with a conscience.

[Illbay]

I think you're right. The politically correct media will probably dress this up with terms like "very young sex workers."