Raul Cortes-Meza, 21, aka "Oscar", a Mexican national, has pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Atlanta to sex trafficking of a minor from Mexico, Acting Assistant Attorney General Loretta King of the Civil Rights Division and U.S. Attorney David Nahmias for the Northern District of Georgia announced. According to the information presented in court, Cortes-Meza harbored a 17-year-old girl in the United States after she was pursued romantically by Cortes-Meza’s alleged co-conspirator in Mexico, then smuggled into the United States and brought to the Norcross, Ga., area.
After the victim’s arrival in Norcross, Cortes-Meza, knowing that the victim was under 18 years of age, drove her to numerous apartments in the Atlanta metropolitan area to have sex with paying clients. Cortes-Meza instructed the victim to enter the apartments and provide 15 minutes of sexual services to each man who was present, and subsequently collected money from the men with whom the victim engaged in commercial sex.
The sex trafficking of a minor charge to which Cortes-Meza pleaded guilty carries a mandatory minimum sentence of 10 years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been scheduled by the court.
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