Thread: 2 imprisoned for bringing Mexican girl to Houston for prosti

2 imprisoned for bringing Mexican girl to Houston for prostitution
By DALE LEZON HOUSTON CHRONICLE
Dec. 9, 2009, 7:15AM


Two Mexican men living in the United States illegally have been convicted and sentenced for smuggling a teenage girl to Houston and forcing her to become a prostitute at local bars, federal authorities said.

A third person was convicted and sentenced for keeping the girl at an apartment.

Federal authorities said that Jorge Texis-Montano, 24, and Jorge Aguila-Cuapio, 19, pleaded guilty to conspiring to bring the 15-year-old girl into the country from Mexico for prostitution.

Sonia Tecuapacho-Tecuapacho, 24, pleaded guilty to harboring the minor in a Houston area apartment.

Texis was sentenced to two and a half years and Aguila was sentenced to three years in federal prison.

Tecuapacho was sentenced to time served, which is about seven months.

The trio had been jailed without bond since they were arrested May 2009 and are subject to deportation upon the completion of their prison sentences.

Federal officials said that a person alerted Houston police on April 28 that the girl was being held against her will and forced to prostitute herself at several bars in Houston.

The person gave police a telephone number at the apartment where the girl was being held.

Officers went to the unit, found the girl and arrested the suspects.

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