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Every once in a while, I read an article that puts me in attack and fight mode. I try not to be this way but when children are not protected, I want somebody to pay big time.
Two illegal aliens Illegal aliens Domingo Salazar and his wife, Norma Mendez were running a prostitution ring out of their New York apartment. They had been charged in July with smuggling and forcing women into prostitution. Don’t forget that date. Domingo, over a year ago, got one of the prostitutes pregnant. He and his wife were supposed to be raising the baby, bit decided to abuse it instead. Well the two illegal, trafficking, alien slugs ended up killing the baby at three months. The baby’s name was Carlos. Carlos’s body was placed in a plastic tub and sealed it with concrete. The tub was kept in the apartment and the couple would leave their own kids at home with this tub and a decomposing baby’s body.
People are wondering why they weren’t in jail for being charged in July. They probably bonded out but there are crimes in the federal system that aren’t considered heinous and smuggling, prostitution, and trafficking are a couple of them. Disregard the fact that while the illegal couple were being indicted in July, there was a dead baby in a cement grave back in their apartment.
The people that are pushing to legalize prostitution will say that if it was regulated, this type of stuff wouldn’t happen. Not true. It will be harder to catch these traffickers since there will be laws protecting them. The police probably never would have gotten into that house early on if it wasn’t for the fact that an illegal act of prostitution and promoting prostitution was occurring. By the way, I noticed that when something like this dead baby happens and is another victim of human trafficking, the pro-legalization people are curiously silent.
This illegal alien couple came to America for a better life, They knew they could make a lot of dirty money by smuggling girls into this country and forcing them to sell their bodies for sex. They had to. Smuggling costs money and this couple needed to be paid back. Carlos’s birth mother, wherever she is, will have to deal with not only the trauma of losing a baby but the effects of being trafficked. She might be the only one feeling any guilt of that poor dead baby.
For those scholars that think prostitution is a victim-less crime, I think baby Carlos would disagree.
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Appreciate your blog and insight into the unthinkable things that go along with human trafficking. My mother cub claws come out hearing about situations like this!
The way you beat the phrase *illegal alien* into the post makes it seem like domestic citizens aren’t also traffickers. This is misleading as most traffickers and victims within the U.S. are *from* the U.S.
But it’s good to see some rage. We need more.
I totally agree. My reasoning behind that was these people were already breaking the law and if the profession was legalized, the victims would be more difficult to get to because the traffickers would use the law to protect their illegal activity. They would still have a motivation to stay underground due to their immigration status. Thanks for the comment!