Thread: Illegal charged with prostituting minor

Illegal immigrant charged with prostituting Hillsborough minor
By Shelley Rossetter, Times Staff Writer
Posted: Apr 13, 2010

TAMPA — Federal agents charged an illegal immigrant Tuesday with forcing a developmentally disabled girl to perform sex acts for pay at migrant worker camps across eastern Hillsborough County, according to court records.

Mario Alberto Laguna-Guerrero, 25, is accused of charging migrants $25 in exchange for sexual intercourse with the 17-year-old girl, who has an IQ of 58. He is also accused of attempting to recruit the girl's classmates and raping one of them in front of her, the document states.

"...[T]o be blunt, he became her pimp," a special agent with Immigrations and Customs Enforcement wrote.

Laguna-Guerrero is charged with the sex trafficking of a minor, and faces a maximum sentence of life in federal prison. He is being held without bond.

Hillsborough County sheriff's deputies arrested Laguna-Guerrero on March 31 on sexual battery and prostitution charges.

During questioning, he told the special agent with a human trafficking task force that he had been dating the girl for about two years and had been sexually active with her since she was 16.

The complaint, filed by the U.S. Attorney's Office, says he had been living with the girl and her mother for about a year. He admitted to acting as a pimp for the girl for the last four months, according to the document.

The girl told authorities she would see up to nine "johns" a night, with Laguna-Guerrero driving her to mobile homes at migrant farm worker camps on Friday and Saturday nights.

In the document, Laguna-Guerrero said he was using the money to repay a debt he owed for being smuggled into the country from Mexico in 2002. Laguna-Guerrero said his smuggler threatened to cut off his fingers if he didn't pay.

However, the document states, Laguna-Guerrero gave inconsistent stories about the debt and how it was to be repaid.

The girl told authorities that Laguna-Guerrero would give her some of the money at the end of each night and would use his share to repair his vehicle. He said he worked picking strawberries to supplement the money the girl made.

The girl said the prostitution started in fall 2009 when Laguna-Guerrero told her it was her fault he lost his job.

She told authorities that he was not violent with her, but would cut himself and tell her it was her fault that he hurt himself. She referred to a wound on Laguna-Guerrero's chest that authorities later confirmed.

The girl also told authorities that Laguna-Guerrero pressured her to recruit her classmates. After attempting to recruit a 16-year-old friend with the IQ of a second grader, the girl told authorities Laguna-Guerrero raped the friend in front of her.

Shelley Rossetter can be reached at (813) 226-3374 or srossetter@sptimes.com.
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Where was the girls' mother? Why hasn't she been charged also? Sick people who think this is normal. This is what we're importing. Men who can't get get girls interested in them prey on the helpless, with the help of the victim's relatives. Was he that hideous? Why didn't he pimp mami, or was she too hideous too?

Too many societies still consider the worth of a woman only by the man at her side. And the man is always right, whatever he does no matter how horrible that can be.

Mario Alberto Laguna-Guerrero, 25, is accused of charging migrants $25 in exchange for sexual intercourse with the 17-year-old girl, who has an IQ of 58. He is also accused of attempting to recruit the girl's classmates and raping one of them in front of her, the document states.

These are the people this administration wants to give amnesty to! I'm really at a loss for words here. Contemptible....