Guatemalan Pasqual Mendez, 23, an illegal alien residing in North Carolina bought a 14 year old from her parents in Guatemala and brought her to the United States to be his sex slave. The curious thing is that under the policies of Barack Obama, the girl is a legal resident of the United States, making the government complicit in human trafficking. Mendez is not a legal resident of the United States and could be deported if convicted, but I seriously doubt it. Obama doesn’t deport illegal aliens for murder unless they try to register to vote as a republican.
Every day 33 people become entrapped in sex trafficking rings in Guatemala, including a “shocking” proportion of children, some of them sold into the sex trade by their mothers, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said.
Nearly 60 percent of the 50,000 victims of sex trafficking in Guatemala are children, according to a report by UNICEF and the U.N. Commission against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG), which estimates the industry to be worth $1.6 billion a year.
“We never imagined the magnitude of the number of children being sexually exploited. People were shocked by the figures, as were we,” Mariko Kagoshima said, referring to the recent U.N. report.
Girls as young as 12 work in brothels and are forced to have sex with up to 30 customers a day, while virgin girls are recruited at schools, she said.
Sex trafficking is fueled by a “social tolerance” of children being sold for sex work, a business equal to 2.7 percent of Guatemala’s gross domestic product, she said.
Police have not revealed how much Mendez paid for the girl but said that her parents approved of the transaction.