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Nicaraguan receives 10 months in prison for bringing woman to Northport for prostitution

By Stephanie Taylor Staff Writer

Published: Tuesday, August 17, 2010 at 3:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Monday, August 16, 2010 at 11:17 p.m.

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A Nicaraguan man who brought a woman to Northport to work as a prostitute was sentenced Monday to 10 months in prison.

“Making money off the exploitation and misery of another human being, whether for commercial sex acts or forced labor, is human trafficking and nothing more than modern-day slavery,” U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance said in a statement released Monday. “Prosecuting this type case is how we begin to address the criminal enterprise of human trafficking, which, sadly, is growing in the United States.”

U.S. District Judge Abdul K. Kallon sentenced Castilblanco-Hernandez, 27, to serve 10 months in prison and five years on supervised release. He will be required to register as a sex offender after completing the prison term.

Castilblanco-Hernandez also went by the names Otilio Orosco Tremino and Manuel.

“It is a top priority of the Justice Department and the U.S. Attorney’s Office to forge partnerships among local, state and federal law enforcement agencies and victim service providers to identify, investigate and prosecute crimes of human trafficking and reduce the number of people who become enslaved by it,” Vance said.

According to court documents, agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement received a tip that a Hispanic man was offering the services of prostitutes at a home on 10th Street in Northport.

The documents indicate that he had charged men $25 to have sex with the woman and had paid her $15 between Jan. 7 and Jan. 15. ICE agents who executed a search warrant at the house found a woman and three men, all foreign-born nationals who were unlawfully present in the U.S. They found a man and the woman in a back bedroom.

Prosecutors recommended a reduced sentence because Castilblanco-Hernandez cooperated with investigators after his arrest and agreed to plead guilty. The maximum sentence for transporting an individual across state lines for prostitution is 10 years.

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Donald Castilblanco-Hernandez pleaded guilty in June to one count of interstate transportation of an individual for prostitution. He admitted that he traveled to Atlanta in January to pick up the Nicaraguan woman in her 20s, and brought her to Northport to work for him.

The documents indicate that he had charged men $25 to have sex with the woman and had paid her $15 between Jan. 7 and Jan. 15. ICE agents who executed a search warrant at the house found a woman and three men, all foreign-born nationals who were unlawfully present in the U.S. They found a man and the woman in a back bedroom.

Prosecutors recommended a reduced sentence because Castilblanco-Hernandez cooperated with investigators after his arrest and agreed to plead guilty. The maximum sentence for transporting an individual across state lines for prostitution is 10 years.

Reach Stephanie Taylor at stephanie.taylor@tuscaloosa

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