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Feds bust girl-smuggling ring in Jersey - All were smuggled from South America
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Posted on 07/23/2005 7:23:05 PM PDT by Happy2BMe

Feds bust girl-smuggling ring in Jersey

An international ring smuggled girls as young as 14 into the U.S. from Honduras and forced them to work as virtual slaves in New Jersey bars - and endure brutal beatings if they protested, authorities said yesterday.

Some of the girls were raped by smugglers and those who became pregnant were forced to take abortion drugs so they could stay on the job, prosecutors said.

"This was inhumane and sadistic treatment of young women who were kept as virtual slaves," said Newark U.S. Attorney Christopher Christie. "These are among the most vile crimes I've seen."

The alleged ringleader, Luisa Medrano, 50, of Cliffside Park, N.J., and nine other suspects, some in Honduras, were charged yesterday with alien smuggling and other crimes that could get them up to 20 years in prison and $250,000 in fines.

An indictment handed up in Newark alleged smugglers promised the victims jobs as waitresses - but instead forced them to drink and dance with customers at Medrano's three Hudson County bars.

The women were paid $240 for working up to seven days a week - but nearly all the money went to the smuggling ring, which charged $10,000 to $20,000 to bring them to the U.S.

Christie said girls who objected were treated brutally. "One 15-year-old was beaten so badly blood vessels were broken in her eyes and a 14-year-old was beaten with a belt that raised welts all over her body," he said.

He said 10 young women were victimized from mid-2003 until January, when the ring was smashed. But at least 20 others are believed to have been enslaved. The probe is continuing. The victims already identified and located are now under federal protection and getting counseling and schooling, Christie said. He said they're eligible to seek visas to remain legally in the U.S.



TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; US: New Jersey
KEYWORDS: aliens; humansmuggling; illegalalien; immigrantlist; sexslaves; slaves; smuggle; smuggler
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How remote an incident is this?
1 posted on 07/23/2005 7:23:06 PM PDT by Happy2BMe
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To: JohnHuang2; keri; international american; Kay Soze; jpsb; hershey; TomInNJ; dagnabbit; Pro-Bush; ...
An international ring smuggled girls as young as 14 into the U.S. from Honduras and forced them to work as virtual slaves in New Jersey bars - and endure brutal beatings if they protested, authorities said yesterday.

2 posted on 07/23/2005 7:24:35 PM PDT by Happy2BMe (Viva La MIGRA - LONG LIVE THE BORDER PATROL!)
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To: Happy2BMe

Flesh-peddlers should hang by the neck until dead.


3 posted on 07/23/2005 7:26:31 PM PDT by LibKill (Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. - Benjamin Franklin)
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To: Happy2BMe
I lived in Cliffside for 10 years. Not too bad of a town.
But since it is 5 minutes from Manhattan you get some bad elements.
4 posted on 07/23/2005 7:30:19 PM PDT by since1868
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To: Happy2BMe
Illegal smugglers doing things against humanity the locals won't.

sarcasm/vomiting off

5 posted on 07/23/2005 7:31:49 PM PDT by BipolarBob (Yes I backed over the vampire, but I swear I didn't see it in my rearview mirror.)
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To: Happy2BMe
Less remote than you would like to ever consider.

Get used to it, the southern boarder is wide open, and what is the routine in the third world will soon be so here.

Wait till gangs start taking over whole city blocks.
6 posted on 07/23/2005 7:32:21 PM PDT by mmercier (it is coming you know.)
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To: LibKill

Too quick!


7 posted on 07/23/2005 7:33:54 PM PDT by em2vn
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To: Happy2BMe

Slavers get 20 years.

Bernie Ebbers gets 25 years.

MM


8 posted on 07/23/2005 7:36:04 PM PDT by MississippiMan (Americans should not be sacrificed on the altar of political correctness.)
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To: Happy2BMe
The alleged ringleader, Luisa Medrano, 50, of Cliffside Park, N.J., and nine other suspects, some in Honduras, were charged yesterday with alien smuggling and other crimes that could get them up to 20 years in prison and $250,000 in fines.

It's a good thing Homeland Security is on the job protecting us...

Let's toss the agency another billion dollars.

9 posted on 07/23/2005 7:40:47 PM PDT by F16Fighter
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To: Happy2BMe; mmercier

Fort Worth had the same thing. Hoduran women as slave/prostitutes in the predominately Mexican area of Northside.


10 posted on 07/23/2005 7:42:56 PM PDT by Abcdefg
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To: Happy2BMe
Awww come on theses poor flesh peddlers are just here trying working hard in order to earn money to feed their starving children in South America Mexico & Latin America...
11 posted on 07/23/2005 7:46:33 PM PDT by joesnuffy (The state always has solutions to the problems it creates...more freedom will never be a solution)
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ping


12 posted on 07/23/2005 7:47:12 PM PDT by gubamyster
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To: Happy2BMe
He said they're eligible to seek visas to remain legally in the U.S.

The article says that some of the girls are as young as 14. WHY would a 14 year old girl with relatives in Honduras be given a visa to live in America?? Why would any of them be given these visas? I think America has enough prostitutes to go around with importing more.

13 posted on 07/23/2005 8:01:32 PM PDT by janetgreen
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I guess it all depends on how they got here (kidnapped, bought, parents murdered?) and who wants them returned safely (or not) in their home country.


14 posted on 07/23/2005 8:04:16 PM PDT by Happy2BMe (Viva La MIGRA - LONG LIVE THE BORDER PATROL!)
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To: mmercier

---Wait till gangs start taking over whole city blocks.---

You don't have to wait. You can enjoy this phenomenon in LA today.


15 posted on 07/23/2005 8:12:45 PM PDT by claudiustg (Go Sharon! Go Bush!)
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To: claudiustg
Wait till gangs start taking over whole city blocks.

Don't they have smart bombs just for this purpose?

16 posted on 07/23/2005 8:15:39 PM PDT by since1868
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Ping


17 posted on 07/23/2005 8:27:19 PM PDT by nw_arizona_granny (http://bernie.house.gov/pc/members.asp Meet YOUR Communist party members in Congress)
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To: Happy2BMe

That's sad and I'm sure they were made to do more than serve drinks!!


18 posted on 07/23/2005 8:55:43 PM PDT by potlatch (Does a clean house indicate that there is a broken computer in it?)
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To: janetgreen
I think America has enough prostitutes to go around with importing more.

They did come here AS prostitutes, they were forced to become such. They weren't imported...they were basically kidnapped.

19 posted on 07/23/2005 8:59:09 PM PDT by madison10
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To: madison10

Did not...not "did."


20 posted on 07/23/2005 8:59:35 PM PDT by madison10
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