A Queens lady who intercourse trafficked a 14-year-old lady from El Salvador and compelled her to work with out pay has been sentenced to seven and a half years in jail, the Queens District Lawyer’s Workplace stated final Thursday.
Marilyn Roque, 30, was sentenced after pleading responsible in Could to intercourse trafficking of a kid, intercourse trafficking by power, labor trafficking and endangering the welfare of a kid.
{The teenager} first arrived from El Salvador to reside with Roque in Roque’s Rockaway Park dwelling in September 2022, in keeping with courtroom paperwork. 4 months later, Roque compelled the 14-year-old to have intercourse with a 49-year-old man for $600 on New 12 months’s Eve. Along with pimping her out, Roque, 30, compelled the lady to maintain her youngsters and work at a restaurant with out pay, threatening her with deportation if she instructed anybody, prosecutors stated.
“This defendant took advantage of a child and forced the 14-year-old to engage in prostitution and work shifts at a restaurant for her own financial gain,” Queens D.A. Melinda Katz stated in an announcement. “I thank the brave teenager, who came forward and gave us information to build this case and get justice. The trafficking of children — and stripping them of their dignity through forced sex and labor exploitation — is particularly sinister.”
Roque typically saved {the teenager} out of college so she may work, in keeping with the D.A.’s workplace.
On New 12 months’s Eve 2022, Roque compelled the teenager to have intercourse together with her neighbor, Jesus Juarez-Reyas, now 51. Juarez-Reyas has pleaded responsible to rape within the third diploma and patronizing an individual for prostitution. He and Roque will each be required to register as intercourse offenders.
Juarez-Reyas is anticipated to be sentenced July 23.
