Man indicted for human trafficking in Florida

In the US, the FBI has arrested a man on suspicion of trafficking two Mexican women aged 14 and 24 and selling them into forced prostitution in Fort Myers. They were told that they would have to work as prostitutes in order to pay off a debt of $2,700 each for being brought into the US. It is a common strategy for traffickers to bring women to a country and then remove their travel documents and tell them that they must pay off a huge debt. Eliseo Escalante Santizo, 30, of Fort Myers was taken into custody on unrelated charges of battery and resisting an officer with violence. He has now been indicted on human trafficking and forced prostitution charges. Chief Assistant U.S. Attorney Doug Molloy said that Santizo allegedly brought the women from Mexico through Arizona and sold them in Florida. The women managed to escape when they were left unguarded in an Immokalee motel.