{"id":19486,"date":"2017-12-07T15:05:36","date_gmt":"2017-12-07T15:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agape.org.mx\/index\/?p=19486"},"modified":"2017-12-07T15:05:36","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T15:05:36","slug":"feature-seduced-into-slavery-how-a-mexican-family-became-sex-traffickers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agape.org.mx\/index\/index.php\/2017\/12\/07\/feature-seduced-into-slavery-how-a-mexican-family-became-sex-traffickers\/","title":{"rendered":"FEATURE-Seduced into slavery: How a Mexican family became sex traffickers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thomson Reuters Foundation.M\u00e9xico<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was never taught to value women. I saw my mother being hit by my stepfathers. She&#8217;d go back to them again and again. So women became worthless.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mario Garfias never thought twice when he pulled out his baseball bat, nicknamed Panchito, to beat the women and teenage girls that he used as prostitutes in Mexico City&#8217;s red light district of La Merced.<\/p>\n<p>Together with his younger brother Enrique and mother Esperanza, Garfias was a sex trafficker. For nearly eight years, the trio inflicted terror over young women and girls &#8211; who the brothers referred to as &#8220;merchandise&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>If the girls, some as young as 16, did not earn their daily quota or disobeyed rules, they faced Panchito.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.trust.org\/item\/20171130050906-gcj0b\/\">Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomson Reuters Foundation.M\u00e9xico &#8220;I was never taught to value women. I saw my mother being hit by my stepfathers. She&#8217;d go back to them again and again. So women became worthless.&#8221; Mario Garfias never thought twice when he pulled out his baseball bat, nicknamed Panchito, to beat the women and teenage girls that he used &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19487,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[166,167,660,857,909,1029,1263,1264,1273,1357,1358,1365,1532,1652,1658,1659,1969,2234,2290,2291,2334,2514,3226,3484,3531,3670],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agape.org.mx\/index\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19486"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agape.org.mx\/index\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agape.org.mx\/index\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agape.org.mx\/index\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agape.org.mx\/index\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/agape.org.mx\/index\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19488,"href":"https:\/\/agape.org.mx\/index\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19486\/revisions\/19488"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agape.org.mx\/index\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agape.org.mx\/index\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agape.org.mx\/index\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agape.org.mx\/index\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}