A01=Roger Rodriguez
Author_Roger Rodriguez
baby mill
border crime
cartel trafficking
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Category=JBFJ
Category=JKVK
Category=JKVM
child abuse
Child trafficker
Elsa Cuellar
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eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
eq_society-politics
human trafficking
Laredo
Mexico
Operation Cabbage Patch
sex trafficking
Texas
The "Solanos"
Product details
- ISBN 9781538185063
- Weight: 544g
- Dimensions: 160 x 237mm
- Publication Date: 05 Mar 2024
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Since the early 1990s, Elsa Cuellar was able to operate in a way that left no trail. She would pose as a pastor, doctor, or lawyer to win the trust of her young victims. With the promise of a better life, citizenship, and education, these young girls were lured into the clutches of Cuellar’s claws where they became the source of her wealth. This in itself made her money, but the true motive was to ensure these young girls got pregnant. By posing as a doctor or midwife, Cuellar would convince the young girls that having the baby at her home was the most sanitary and natural way to give birth. Unknown to the girls, the objective was to have a delivery that would not be on record at a hospital. This made her underground baby-selling enterprise easier. After all, who would look for a baby no one knows exists? Once Cuellar delivered the sad news to the young girls that the baby died during birth, her mission was complete.
Roger Rodriguez is an American author born in Houston, Texas. He is the author of The Long Way to Mexico which won an International Latino Book Award (2022) and Silver Book Fest Award (2022). In 2008, he was featured in the Discovery Channel for his work The Grass Beneath His Feet: The Charles Victor Thompson Story which highlights the escape of death row inmate Charles Victor Thompson. Later, this work was translated into French, German, and Italian editions.
