A brother and sister from Guatemala were given lengthy prison sentences for abusing at least two illegal alien children in their care, in case you were wondering how the federal pipeline for migrant kids is working out.
According to this, Domingo Francisco-Juan was given life in prison and his sister, Lorenza Domingo-Castaneda, was sentenced to 20 years after the siblings, both migrants from Guatemala, were convicted of abusing two girls they smuggled across the U.S. border. A third sibling, Catarina Domingo-Juan, has already been given 20 years for her role in the crime.
One female victim was brought to the U.S. in 2015 when she was just 10 years old, and the other trafficked in 2019. Both girls were also from Guatemala. Francisco-Juan and Domingo-Castaneda reportedly promised the girls’ mothers that they would have better lives in the U.S.
The DOJ said the first girl, identified as Victim 1 in court documents, was brought into the U.S. and processed as an Unaccompanied Alien Child. Health and Human Services then sent her to Francisco-Juan and Domingo-Castaneda, believing them to be the girls’ relatives based on a forged birth certificate.
Investigators found that after being sent to their “sponsors,” both girls were subjected to horrific abuse and forced labor, denied access to school, and made to work as nannies and housekeepers for the sibling pair. Victim 1 was forced to clean hotel rooms while Francisco-Juan and Domingo-Castaneda stole her paycheck. Prosecutors also said she was forced to have sex with multiple members of her abusers’ family including two of Francisco-Juan’s sons, resulting in her pregnancy. It was only after she was hospitalized for a miscarriage in 2021 that authorities were clued in to the situation. She was also regularly beaten, and at one point was stabbed when Francisco-Juan didn’t like her cooking.
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Both victims were also eventually cut off from communicating with their parents back in Guatemala.
“What these young women were forced to endure at the hands of these defendants was nothing short of a nightmare,” said Gregory Harris, U.S. Attorney for the Central District of Illinois. “For two of the women, this involuntary servitude constituted a significant part of their childhood.”
While both victims were brought to the U.S. under Trump, the current administration hasn’t exactly improved the situation. In 2021, a federal watchdog report found the Biden administration failed to properly vet “sponsors” for illegal alien children including the performance of basic safety checks or even making sure HHS had legitimate documentation on the adults to whom thousands of migrant children were being sent. Later reports found the administration had lost track of some 85,000 illegal alien kids who’d been sent to sponsors, many of them having possibly been trafficked for forced labor and sex work.
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