Thread: Mexican Man allegedly tried to sell woman, 4 kids

Mexican Man allegedly tried to sell woman, 4 kids

The Associated Press
5:28 p.m. June 28, 2009

MEXICO CITY — A Mexican man has been detained for allegedly plotting to sell a young woman, two girls and two boys for $2,000 apiece in the United States, police said Sunday.

Police in the northern state of Sonora said the 19-year-old woman and girls aged 12 and 15 were kidnapped by the suspect and another man.
The woman and the girls were freed after being held since June 22 at a house in the town of Cananea, near the Arizona border, police said.

The suspect confessed that he planned sell them to a contact in the United States to work as prostitutes, the a police statement said. He also allegedly wanted to sell his two stepsons, ages 1 and 4, it added.

The man has not been formally charged. He is being held on suspicion of human trafficking, a charge that carries a maximum punishment of 23 years in prison.

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My friends went to Mexico in the 70's and someone tried to sell him a female child.

You can take a bear out of the woods, but it's still a bear.

Dixie