Illinois Family Charged for Forced Labor of Two Guatemalan Minors
BY FATMA KHALED ON 8/19/22 AT 2:59 PM EDT
Afederal grand jury has indicted an Illinois family of three siblings for conspiracy to kidnap and commit forced labor of two Guatemalan minors, the Department of Justice (DOJ) said on Thursday.
The family, Domingo Francisco-Juan, Lorenza Domingo-Castaneda, and Catarina Domingo-Juan, who are also Guatemalan nationals, allegedly conspired to bring two minors from Guatemala to the United States to work at their homes between December 2015 and March 2021, according to the indictment.
"The defendants compelled the victims to provide childcare, cooking, and cleaning within the homes and to work outside the homes in local hotels, factories, and a restaurant. As alleged, the defendants used false promises of a better life and an education to gain the permission of the victims' mothers for their minor daughters to be brought to the United States to live with the defendants," the DOJ said in the statement.
Over 24 million people around the world were forced into labor as of 2016, according to an estimate by the International Labour Organization provided on the Department of Homeland Security's website.
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