Thread: Man Gets Prison For Keeping Child Sex Slave

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Man Gets Prison For Keeping Child Sex Slave

POSTED: 12:00 pm CDT August 2, 2006

BONITA SPRINGS, Fla. -- A Florida man will spend 10 years in prison for his role in harboring a 13-year-old girl kept as a sex slave and housekeeper.

A U.S. district judge sentenced 22-year-old Fernando Pascual Tuesday. As part of a plea deal, Pascual pleaded guilty in March to charges of sex trafficking and harboring an illegal immigrant for commercial gain. His sentence of 10 years was in exchange for the victim not having to testify.

Pascual, his sister, Matilde Pascual Andres, and Andres' husband, Pascual Miguel Sebastian, were charged in May 2005 with harboring a young girl in a Cape Coral, Fla., home.

Prosecutors said the girl was bought in Guatemala and brought to Cape Coral, where she was raped, beaten and forced to work.

Matilde Pascual Andres also was sentenced Tuesday to 22 months in prison for her role. Pascual Miguel Sebastian was sentenced to 16 months in May on a similar charge.

Prosecutors said this will help the victim move forward.

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Now that is a human rights abuse! They should of all received much tougher prison sentences in my opinion.