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Two sex traffickers accused of 2023 St. Charles Sweep Plead Guilty – Local Shaw

Two sex traffickers accused of 2023 St. Charles Sweep Plead Guilty – Local Shaw

Two of the five people charged with sex trafficking in St. Charles Both pleaded guilty and agreed to meet five years in prison in the transactions negotiated with the prosecutors.

Rigoberto Parra, 47, from Aurora and Christian Hurtado, 29, from Elgin, were accused In a sweep of law enforcement On July 20, 2023 in St. Charles. Both advocated guilty for a number of trafficking in persons, a class 1 offense and accepted five years in prison and 12 months of compulsory supervision following their release, according to the plea agreement.

The other charges will not be prosecuted, according to the agreement.

The Circuit Judge of Kane County, David Kliment, accepted the plea agreements on Friday, February 21.

Both will receive credit for 584 days already served in the prison in Kane County, receiving a free day for each day executed, and their sentences will be executed at the same time with similar charges submitted in Cook County, the documents show.

Both agreed to pay $ 5.14 dollars, which includes $ 1,785 each in return, the documents show.

Hurtado and Parra were accused for a number of involuntary easements – an X -A -class offense – eight charges of trafficking, a number of involuntary easements in a lower offense and four charges of promoting prostitution following arrests They show the records.

The punishment for a sentence to the 10th grade is six to 30 years in prison.

27 -year -old Christian Hurtado, Christian Hurtado, was accused of involuntary servitude (X -grade offense), human trafficking (class 1 offense), involuntary easement (class 1 offense), involuntary easement ( 4 -grade offense) and promoting prostitution.

The punishment for a sentence to class 1 is four to 15 years or 48 months of evidence.

In July 2023, Police St. Charles led the probe to break a trafficking union, who included rescue seven women who were trafficked in brothels. A brothel is in a West Side apartment in St. Charles, and others were in South Elgin, Elgin, Hanover Park, Palatine and Chicago.

In the process of arrests, the police saved seven women, all from South America, between the ages of 20 and the early 30s, the police said.

Criminal cases against the other three-hectares Briseno, 55, Martha P. Hurtado-Hernandez, 58, both from Chicago and Daniel Hurtado, 27, from Elgin are still pending.