Smuggler convicted of assaulting immigrant
A people smuggler was convicted Thursday in Brooklyn federal court of sexually assaulting a teenage illegal immigrant from El Salvador while driving her in a van to relatives in Brentwood.
The woman, now 21 and working as a waitress at a Long Island Chinese restaurant, testified at trial that when she was 17 she was smuggled into Texas for $4,000. She said defendant Juan Carlos Escobar-Gonzalez,...
