{"id":1371250,"date":"2022-03-11T12:26:36","date_gmt":"2022-03-11T17:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1371250"},"modified":"2022-03-11T12:26:39","modified_gmt":"2022-03-11T17:26:39","slug":"texas-border-city-woman-accused-of-running-underage-sex-trafficking-operation-for-23-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/texas-border-city-woman-accused-of-running-underage-sex-trafficking-operation-for-23-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Border City Woman Accused of Running Underage Sex Trafficking Operation for 23 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftexas-border-city-woman-accused-of-running-underage-sex-trafficking-operation-for-23-years%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1371250&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">A Texas woman and her son are facing federal charges in connection with a large-scale sex-trafficking operation which allegedly ran for longer than 23 years. The victims were reportedly young women and underage girls from northern Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>This week, Rita Martinez went before U.S. Magistrate Judge Nadia Medrano, who notified her of the formal charges and ordered she be held without bond, court documents revealed. Martinez\u2019s son, Genaro Fuentes, is expected to make his appearance later this week.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The charges against Martinez and her son stem from an 11 count federal indictment a grand jury handed down late last month under seal. Both mother and son were already in state custody on local charges.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>According to the indictment, Martinez would allegedly recruit women and underage girls in the Mexican states of Durango and Coahuila, promising jobs in U.S. restaurants or maid service companies. The woman would then allegedly make arrangements with human smugglers to cross the victims into south Texas. All human smuggling activities in the Rio Grande Valley are controlled by the Gulf Cartel.<\/p>\n<p>Once the women arrived in Mission, Texas, Martinez would allegedly force them to work at a bar to pay off smuggling debts, the indictment revealed. The women would work at Martinez\u2019s bar by drinking beers with patrons. Court documents show that for each beer a client drank or bought for them, they would get a certain amount deducted from their debts.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors claim Martinez and her son would force the women to have sex with customers for profit. The customers would take the women to hotels or vehicles for the encounters.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities also claimed Martinez would physically abuse the women who refused to have sex and warned to turn them over to immigration authorities or threaten the safety of their families in Mexico.<\/p>\n<p><em>Ildefonso Ortiz is an award-winning journalist with Breitbart Texas. He co-founded Breitbart Texas\u2019 Cartel Chronicles project with Brandon Darby\u00a0and senior Breitbart management.\u00a0You can follow him on\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IldefonsoOrtiz\"><em>Twitter<\/em><\/a><em>\u00a0and on\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Ildefonso-Ortiz\/731511040246659\"><em>Facebook<\/em><\/a><em>. He can be contacted at\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"mailto:Iortiz@breitbart.com\"><em>Iortiz@breitbart.com<\/em><\/a><em>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Brandon Darby is the managing director and editor-in-chief of Breitbart Texas. He co-founded Breitbart Texas\u2019 Cartel Chronicles project with Ildefonso Ortiz and senior Breitbart management. Follow him on\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/brandondarby?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor\"><em>Twitter\u00a0<\/em><\/a><em>and\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/brandonmichaeldarby\"><em>Facebook<\/em><\/a><em>. He can be contacted at\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"mailto:bdarby@breitbart.com\"><em>bdarby@breitbart.com<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Texas woman and her son are facing federal charges in connection with a large-scale sex-trafficking operation which allegedly ran for longer than 23 years. 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