and i said, let go of me. hernandez left her bakery business in el salvador for what she thought was a well-paying factory job. instead she found herself trapped with 20 women in a squalid cantina. the devoted mother who never drank pleaded with her captor. translator: i said, walter, i don t like this work. i m leaving. i ll pay you some other way but i will pay you. he said, you can t leave here. i said, why, if i m still going to pay you what i owe? he said, just see what happens if you try to leave. i ll go after your family. agent vasquez says if the $13 beers aren t enough, traffickers offer patrons access to mattresses in the back of the cantina. that s how the scheme works. $65 for 15 minutes of sex several times a night per girl. some of them even have quotas they have to comply with.
job she was promised, she was beaten and raped within hours of her arrival from el salvador. then she was thrown to a group of men. translator: he said, they re going to tell you to drink with them because every drink you have goes towards paying off your trip here. the cantinas work like this if a client buys a beer, it costs him $3. if a client wants a girl, he has to pay $13 for her beer. in the time it takes that girl to drink that beer, he s allowed to touch her anywhere on her body. translator: he took me over to one of the clients who was a good friend of his. he said, look, fresh meat from el salvador. just a few weeks after single mother lucia hernandez said good-bye to her children, she found herself in a cantina, surrounded by strange men. translator: he put me between the man s legs. and he said, here, you can do whatever you want with her. the man grabbed me and he put his hands on me.
to pay $13 for her beer. in the time it takes that girl to drink that beer, he s allowed to touch her anywhere on her body. translator: he took me over to one of the clients who was a good friend of his. he said, look, fresh meat from el salvador. just a few weeks after single mother lucia hernandez said good-bye to her children, she found herself in a cantina, surrounded by strange men. translator: he put me between the man s legs. and he said, here, you can do whatever you want with her. the man grabbed me and he put his hands on me. and i said, let go of me. hernandez left her bakery business in el salvador for what she thought was a well-paying factory job. instead she found herself trapped with 20 women in a squalid cantina.
translator: he raped me. i didn t know him. 20-year-old carla sanchez says instead of the restaurant job she was promised, she was beaten and raped within hours of her arrival from el salvador. then she was thrown to a group of men. translator: he said, they re going to tell you to drink with them because every drink you have goes towards paying off your trip here. the cantinas work like this if a client buys a beer, it costs him $3. if a client wants a girl, he has to pay $13 for her beer. in the time it takes that girl to drink that beer, he s allowed to touch her anywhere on her body. translator: he took me over to one of the clients who was a good friend of his. he said, look, fresh meat from el salvador. just a few weeks after single mother lucia hernandez said good-bye to her children, she found herself in a cantina, surrounded by strange men. translator: he put me between the man s legs. and he said, here, you can do whatever you want with her. the man grabbed
his hands on me. and i said, let go of me. hernandez left her bakery business in el salvador for what she thought was a well-paying factory job. instead she found herself trapped with 20 women in a squalid cantina. the devoted mother who never drank pleaded with her captor. translator: i said, walter, i don t like this work. i m leaving. i ll pay you some other way but i will pay you. he said, you can t leave here. i said, why, if i m still going to pay you what i owe? he said, just see what happens if you try to leave. i ll go after your family. agent vasquez says if the $13 beers aren t enough, traffickers offer patrons access to mattresses in the back of the cantina. that s how the scheme works. $65 for 15 minutes of sex