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Prison for NY-Mexico human smuggling conviction
Quick ReadPrison sentence for role in family-run Mexico to NYC prostitution ring
NEW YORK (AP) — The matriarch of a family-run prostitution ring has been sentenced to 10 years in prison. Authorities say the enterprise smuggled women from Mexico to New York, where they were sometimes violently coerced to perform sex acts.
Consuelo Carreto Valencia had pleaded guilty in Brooklyn last July to one sex-trafficking count.
Two of Carreto's sons and a friend pleaded guilty...
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