430 Year Sentence for Homicide of 11 Women in Chihuahua

Translated by El Profe for Borderland Beat from Milenio

  

Pedro Payán, a member of ‘Los Aztecas’, caught the girls, promised them work, then drugged them and forced them to prostitute themselves in a hotel in Cd. Juárez between 2009 and 2012.

Chihuahua- Pedro Payán Gloria, aka El Pifas , a member of the Los Aztecas gang, was sentenced to 430 years in prison "for sexually exploiting and depriving eleven women of their lives," indicated during the court hearing held in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua.

The victims were drugged and forced to prostitute themselves at the Hotel Verde between 2009 and 2012, stressed the agent of the Public Prosecutor's Office of the Specialized Women's Office (FEM) to fully emphasize the guilt of Payán Gloria. 

 

El Pifas and other individuals, several of them already sentenced to 697 years in prison due to these same events, threw the victims into a clandestine "cemetery" located in the Arroyo El Navajo, which is located in the Valley of Ciudad Juárez . 

"Payán Gloria, together with other members of the Los Aztecas gang, recruited 11 women who were held captive at the Hotel Verde in Ciudad Juárez, where they were forced into prostitution," the MP agent said at the trial.
 

With testimonial and scientific evidence, the investigator recorded that El Pifas actively participated in the recruitment of young women, who were promised employment, then drugged and forced to provide sexual services, selling drugs through threats and physical punishment.
 

Each of the young women were made contact with in the historic center of the border city, where many women look for work, and take the bus to go to work or housing. On the way they were caught by the human and drug traffickers that operate in this area.
 

”After evaluating the evidence presented, the Court of Appeal finds sufficient components to convict, for which it issues the exemplary sentence that further establishes the payment of more than half a million pesos for repairing the damage," reported the WEF.
 

It should be noted that on July 27th, 2015, five subjects belonging to the same gang were sentenced to 697 years in prison for the femicide of the 11 women and payment of more than 9 million pesos for damages.  

 

Manuel Vital Anguiano, Edgar Jesús Regalado Villa, César Félix Romero Esparza, Jesús Hernández Martínez and José Contreras Terrazas, took advantage of the moment of violence in Ciudad Juárez to kidnap vulnerable women, due to their age and socioeconomic level, said the president of Court, Catalina Ruiz Pacheco.
 

The victims were identified as: María Guadalupe Pérez Montes, Lizbeth Avilés García, Perla Ivonne Aguirre González, Idalí Juache Laguna, Beatriz Alejandra Hernández Trejo, Jesica Leticia Peña García, Deisy Ramírez Muñoz and Andrea Guerrero Venzor, Monica Liliana Delgado Castillo, Jazmín Salazar Ponce and Jessica Terrazas Ortega.