I could have told them this for the price of a cup of java and a doughnut. The LA Times reports…
Men from U.S., Mexico report ‘risky’ sex with Tijuana prostitutes, study finds
by Tony Perry
A large percentage of men who regularly have sex with prostitutes in Tijuana do not use condoms and have a history of drug and alcohol abuse, according to a study published Friday in the online journal AIDS.
Of 400 men who answered questions for researchers from Mexico and UC San Diego, about half were from Mexico and the rest from the U.S., which suggests that their risky behavior could spread AIDS and other diseases on both sides of the border.
The researchers said that Tijuana has a “thriving” prostitution trade and though local authorities regularly test registered “sex workers” for AIDS, only about half of prostitutes have registered or been tested.
More than half of the men had had unprotected sex within the last four months, the researchers found. The average customer is 36 years old, unmarried and visits prostitutes more than 25 times a year.
Many reported being under the influence of drugs, particularly methamphetamine, while having sex with a prostitute.
Danger Ahead: Mexican Mini Luchadores, Possible Prostitutes, and Spiked Drinks. Read the whole story at NowPublic.com…
Alberto and Alejandro Jimenez, Mini Mexican Wrestlers, Found Dead
Alberto and Alejandro Jimenez, two Mexican wrestler brothers, known by the names La Parkita and Espectrito II, have been found dead in their hotel room in Mexico City.
The District Attorney’s Office said the mini wrestlers were victims of a drink spiked with chemicals that killed them. When the wrestlers entered their room they were in the company of two women, possibly prostitutes. They were found unharmed, but no personal belongings were found in the room, suggesting that they had been robbed.
Their drinks turned out to contain a mixture of alcohol and eyedrops, which is often used as a date rape formula.
The CHIKARA Pro Wrestling Organization made this statement on their website:
“For a few years, this Parkita lived in Kennett’s Square, PA. He rarely wrestled after a falling out with AAA over the rights to be the only Parkita (there have been several.) Based on conversations had with him after “Maximum Overdraft,” it is entirely possible that his final match was his sole CHIKARA appearance from August 5, 2007. When or why he returned to Mexico is not known to us at this time.
“Everyone at CHIKARA wants to express their sincere condolences to his family.”
A development in the NYC-Mexcio Brothel human trafficking trial. Looks like granny is going to The Big House. Read the whole story at the NY Daily News…
Guilty plea in Mexico-NYC human smuggling ring
A diminutive grandmother pleaded guilty to her role in a family-run prostitution ring that smuggled women from Mexico to New York who were sometimes violently coerced to perform sex acts.
Consuelo Carreto Valencia, who is from Mexico, pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court in Brooklyn, quickly bringing to a close a trial that had begun only a day earlier.
The 4-foot-10, 61-year-old woman had faced 12 counts of conspiracy, sex trafficking and smuggling.
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Prosecutors said Carreto was the matriarch of a family operating a human smuggling operating out of the town of San Miguel de Tenancingo.
The Carretos, according to prosecutors, “engaged in a scheme to lure, entice, compel and coerce Mexican women and girls into prostitution” in Mexico and the United States.
The women and girls were smuggled across the border and brought to two apartments in Corona, Queens, where two of Carreto’s sons and another person forced the women — through violence, sexual assault, threats and other methods of coercion — to become prostitutes, prosecutors said.
The women were compelled to turn over their earnings — $25 to $35 for each sex act — to various brothel owners and to the Carretos, prosecutors said.
The ugly side of the profession once again. While a lot of women freely enter the line of work, some don’t. Some of the victims are underage girls. And justice has a habit of catching up with those that victimize them. The US Department of Justice gives us the 411…
Mexican National Sentenced For Role in Sex-Trafficking Ring
Jesus Perez-Laguna, a citizen of Mexico, was sentenced on July 17, 2008, in federal court in Columbia, S.C., on charges stemming from a sex trafficking ring involving at least one teenage girl. Perez-Laguna was sentenced to over 14 years imprisonment and ordered to pay $52,500 in restitution to his victims. After his release from prison, Perez-Laguna will be on federal supervised release for the rest of his life.
As a condition of supervised release, U.S. District Judge Joseph F. Anderson ordered that Perez-Laguna be surrendered to immigration officials for deportation proceedings and further ordered that Perez-Laguna not return to the United States while on supervised release.
In April, Perez-Lagunas co-defendant, Ciro Bustos-Rosales, was sentenced to 70 months in prison, ordered to pay restitution, and ordered to comply with similar terms and conditions of release as those included in Perez-Lagunas sentence.
During their guilty plea hearings in September 2007, both men admitted that they were involved with transporting a 14-year-old girl across the border between the United States and Mexico and the border between North Carolina and South Carolina in order for the minor to engage in prostitution. Additionally, both men admitted that they harbored illegal aliens for the purpose of prostitution.
A large percentage of men who regularly have sex with prostitutes in Tijuana do not use condoms and have a history of drug and alcohol abuse, according to a study published Friday in the online journal AIDS.
Alberto and Alejandro Jimenez, two Mexican wrestler brothers, known by the names La Parkita and Espectrito II, have been found dead in their hotel room in Mexico City.
