Man guilty of US sex trafficking

Wed Nov 24, 2010

BBC News

A Mexican man faces life in prison after being convicted in the US of luring 10 women to the state of Georgia and forcing them into sexual slavery.

A federal jury in Atlanta found Amador Cortes-Meza, 36, guilty of 19 counts of sex trafficking and human smuggling.

Prosecutors said he had enticed young women and girls to Atlanta from Mexico by promising them jobs and romance.

Victims testified he had isolated them from their families, beaten them and threatened to kill relatives in Mexico.