A federal judge in Atlanta sentenced 26-year-old Francisco Cortes-Meza to twenty years in federal prison for his role in a sex trafficking organization that would lure young women from Mexico to Atlanta under false pretenses and then force them into prostitution.
Cortes-Meza was originally indicted on 31 charges back in the summer of 2008 which also prompted an ICE investigation as well. Along with Cortes-Meza his brother Raul as well as three other people were indicted.
Three of their victims testified against Cortes-Meza at the trial. When allowed to address the court, Cortes-Meza said he wanted to apologize to the women for lying to them and mistreating them, but he said his behavior was a result of the extreme poverty that he and the victims come from. Sounds like a crock of shit to me. He has also been ordered to pay $21,000 in restitution to one of his victims.
Once his sentence is complete he’ll be turned over to ICE and most likely deported where he’ll be free to hop back over the border and start breaking laws again since we can’t seem to enforce the ones we already have.
