{"id":14985,"date":"2015-08-25T11:24:03","date_gmt":"2015-08-25T18:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=14985"},"modified":"2015-08-25T11:59:39","modified_gmt":"2015-08-25T18:59:39","slug":"defendants-threatened-and-forced-guatemalan-migrants-including-children-to-work-on-egg-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=14985","title":{"rendered":"Defendants Threatened and Forced Guatemalan Migrants, Including Children, to Work on Egg Farm (News Video)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"u.s.<\/a>Two defendants plead guilty to luring Guatemalan migrants, exploiting and forcing them to work on an egg farm in Ohio, officials announced today.<\/p>\n

Eight minors, as young as 14, and two adults were identified in the indictment unsealed July 2 as victims of the forced labor scheme.<\/p>\n

Aroldo Castillo-Serrano<\/strong>, 33, of Guatemala, plead guilty Monday to a labor trafficking conspiracy, one count of labor trafficking, one count of witness tampering and a related immigration offense.<\/p>\n

His co-conspirator, Conrado Salgado Soto,<\/strong> 52, of Mexico, plead guilty earlier this month to participating in the same labor-trafficking conspiracy, as well as an immigration offense, officials said.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur laws and a sense of common decency require that people not be treated like commodities,\u201d said U.S. Attorney Steven Dettelbach<\/strong>.\u00a0 \u201cThis defendant treated workers as if they were less important than the eggs that they would help produce. \u00a0Now he is going to learn the hard way that in this nation, there is a big difference.”
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