Woman in Lake Worth Beach forced into Prostitution

Woman came to Florida for cleaning job. She was locked in house and sex trafficked

Two people have been arrested in connection with the crimes

A Peruvian woman who traveled to South Florida from California for a job cleaning vacation homes was instead locked inside a brothel in Lake Worth Beach and sex-trafficked to numerous men, according to the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office.

On Thursday, deputies arrested Diana Katherine Chaparro Contreras, 33, and Sandra Luz Peralta Aguilar, 50, on charges of sex trafficking an unauthorized alien, living off the earnings of prostitution, and two counts of keeping a house of ill fame, according to jail records.

The victim told deputies in Spanish that she had been applying for housekeeping jobs on Indeed when she found one that offered $35 an hour, according to a probable cause affidavit. Over the phone, people who identified themselves as the employers behind the listing told her that she would be cleaning vacation homes throughout Palm Beach County and that they would pay for her to fly to Florida for the job.

The victim was persuaded by the money they promised and agreed, arriving at Miami International Airport in February. Once she arrived, her employers told her they would provide her housing. An Uber delivered her to a house in the 1100 block of South M Street in Lake Worth Beach, according to the affidavit.

After being told she would be used for prostitution not for housekeeping...the day she arrived in Lake Worth Beach, the victim was forced to have sex with seven men over the course of six hours. The next day the victim managed to break through the plywood covering her window, climb out, and escape.

Forced into prostitution In Lake Worth Beach