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Arizona Daily Star
Tucson, Arizona | Published: 05.09.2008
Two illegal immigrant women from Guatemala said on Thursday they had been raped earlier this week by a group of armed drug smugglers.
The women, ages 18 and 28, were apprehended along with a group 38 earlier this week but didn’t tell anyone about the sexual assaults until Thursday morning while meeting with an assistant U.S. attorney in preparation for a deportation hearing, said Mario Escalante, Border Patrol Tucson Sector spokesman.
They gave the following account: A group of men dressed in black and carrying backpacks intercepted the group while they were walking through the desert on Monday night. The men pulled the two women aside and sexually assaulted them. One women said a man put a pistol to her head.
Officials notified the Guatemalan Consulate in Phoenix about the incident. The women were still set up for formal removal proceedings, Escalante said.
It’s the second report of women being raped by drug smugglers and third report of violence against women on the desert trails in the past week.
On May 4, three Mexican women, ages 16, 17 and 20, told agents that they had been raped by masked, armed bandits the day before, Daniels said.
On May 6, a Border Patrol encountered two Nicaraguan women, ages 41 and 36, near milepost 20 on Arivaca Road who were visibly injured and dehydrated. They said they had been badly beaten by a the guide, or coyote, when they asked to slow down, Escalante said. They were then left behind in the desert.
Paramedics arrived and treated the two women before transporting them to University Physicians Healthcare Hospital at Kino in Tucson. One said she had back pain from the assault and the other had bruises on her cheekbone and said she had lost consciousness after being struck repeatedly.
Both women were released from the hospital and set up for formal deportation proceedings, Escalante said. Agents notified the Nicaraguan Consulate in California about the incident.
It’s unclear if the violence acts against female illegal border crossers is happening more frequently or if they simply reported the incidents this week, Escalante said. Agents know that sexual assaults and beatings occur but many illegal immigrants choose not to report them, he said.
“We hear about it happening but some of the people fear for what could happen if they say anything,” Escalante said. “They would much rather not say anything to us.”
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