Man Gets 16 Months In Sex Slave Case (daughter sold for $260)

[The Straight Story]

Man Gets 16 Months In Sex Slave Case

POSTED: 2:41 pm EDT May 12, 2006
UPDATED: 2:59 pm EDT May 12, 2006

FORT MYERS, Fla. -- A Guatemalan man will spend 16 months in prison for his role in harboring a 13-year-old girl kept as a sex slave and housekeeper in Fort Myers.

Pascual Sebastian had pleaded guilty to charges of harboring illegal immigrants.

He cooperated with federal prosecutors and helped secure plea deals for two co-defendants in the 2005 human trafficking case against him and his family.

Sebastian was sentenced Thursday.

The Guatemalan teenager told investigators she was forced to cook and clean the house and was used as a sex slave by Miguel's brother-in-law, Fernando Pascual.

Investigators said that after being sold for $260 by her parents, she was enslaved, raped, beaten and impregnated.

http://www.local6.com/news/9207516/detail.html

[Dunvegan]

1. Remember: Many think this abducted child should not have an abortion.

I don't know how long she's been pregnant, but if they'd caught this the week after it happened, there are many places that wouldn't allow for any procedure whatsoever in this country.

I'm so happy she was rescued...madness, sheer madness.

[TahitiNut]

3. Well, "parental consent" would solve everything, tight?

:puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke:

[central scrutinizer]

2. Hey. it's in the Bible

Sanctioned by the fundies

[Mend]

4. why only 16 months in prison when we have the death penalty

here? Rape and enslavement is only 16 months? Just what do they consider real crimes?

[GreenPartyVoter]

5. Abortion?