Four accused in slave-labor trafficking ring on Ohio egg farm
Four accused in slave-labor trafficking ring on Ohio egg farm
By Amy R. Connolly | July 3, 2015 at 11:07 AM
MARION, Ohio, July 3 (UPI) -- Four people were indicted Thursday in a slave-labor ring that smuggled Guatemalan teens and adults into the United States and forced them to live in squalid conditions while working at an Ohio egg farm.
Federal investigators said recruiters enlisted adults and teens in Guatemala, some as young as 14, on the promise of good jobs in the United States and a good education. The laborers were smuggled across the border to Marion, located about 50 miles north of Columbus, where they lived in dilapidated trailers. They were forced to work at a chicken farm where they spent 12 hours a day cleaning coops, debeaking chickens and loading and unloading crates of chickens. The indictment said the workers were threatened with bodily harm if they refused work.
Aroldo Castillo-Serrano, 33 and Ana Angelica Pedro Juan, 21, both of Guatemala; Conrado Salgado Soto, 52, of Mexico; and Pablo Duran Jr., 23 are facing varied charges related to forced labor and immigration offenses, the U.S. Justice Department said.
Prosecutors said the victims were two men and eight children, and forced to work at Trillium Farms in Johnstown, Ohio. The first of the men was smuggled into the U.S. in 2011 and the teens in 2014.
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He would probably assume a few of them were good people. 
This is horrifying on so many levels. 
