The U.S. attorney general’s office charged eight Venezuelan nationals for allegedly coercing illegal aliens into sex trafficking at several motels in Tennessee over two years.
The press release named the eight defendants, who ranged in age from 22 to 51 years old, and said two of them were members of the vicious Tren de Aragua gang.
The women pushed into sex trafficking were allegedly told they needed to pay off their debt for being brought into the U.S.
Officials said that 51-year-old Yilibeth Del Carmen Rivero-De Caldera and her 35-year-old son Klevier Daniel Mota Rivero would promise women in Central and South America that they could have a better life in the U.S. After facilitating their arrival in Tennessee, the women would be forced into prostitution.
The defendants allegedly “utilized online commercial sex websites to post advertisements for the victims” and then sent commercial sex buyers to motels in Nashville and Murfreesboro. The defendants would collect the proceeds from the prostitution. […]
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