Human smugglers become more violent, ICE says | Facebook | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle: "The smuggler, nicknamed 'El Pelon,' Baldy, forced the 11 illegal immigrants to strip naked shortly after they arrived at the southwest Houston stash house, hoping to complicate any plans for escape.
He and the other smugglers led the men up a staircase to a room on the second floor.And there, they lived in what one Honduran immigrant described as a 'state of terror' for days while the smugglers attempted to extort more money from their relatives to secure their release.
One man said a smuggler stepped on his chest until blood came from his mouth. He was beaten, wrapped in a trash bag and left in a closet. The men said they were made to do 'bad things,' sexual acts, to one another by El Pelon, who would take pictures with his cell phone and send them to his friends, according to court records.
By the time Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials rescued the immigrants last August, one of the immigrants held at the house told agents he was contemplating jumping from the second-story window.
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