The Shasta Lake couple forced a mother and her two daughters into hard labor at their restaurant and cleaning service, prosecutors said.
A Texas woman has been arrested in connection with the stabbing death of her boyfriend 26 years ago at their Santa Ana apartment.“These defendants used the promise of a better life to lure a mother and her children to travel to the United States, only to betray their familial relationship and exploit the victims’ precarious situation to cruelly oppress and degrade them, and to turn a profit off their backs,” Assistant Atty. Gen. Kristen Clarke said in a U.S. Department of Justice release.
“In August 2016, the defendants convinced the victims, a Guatemalan relative and her two minor daughters, ages 15 and 8, to come to the United States by falsely promising the victims a better life and arranging for them to enter the United States and overstay their temporary visitor visas,” federal prosecutors said.
“Nery Martinez Vasquez beat the children with a stick that had the children’s name and nickname written on it along with the phrase ‘what goes up, must come down,’” prosecutors said, and the family was kept in a “dilapidated and unheated trailer with no running water.”
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