JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A Florida woman could face 20 years in prison after admitting that she paid about $3,000 to have a Mexican woman
smuggled across the border to be a pregnancy surrogate,
WJAX reports.
Esthela Clark, 47, of Jacksonville, pleaded guilty Monday in federal court to a charge of forced labor. She was originally arrested in 2015
after a concerned citizen notified authorities.
A criminal complaint obtained by WJAX said Clark
kept the 22-year-old woman captive at an apartment for about two years. Investigators said Clark
physically abused and tried to artificially inseminate the the woman
with semen from her boyfriend’s used condoms with a household syringe.
The victim told investigators Clark would sometimes inject her three to four times a day, according to court documents
obtained by People. When she didn’t become pregnant, Clark decided it was because the
victim was overweight and began giving her only beans to eat, causing
her to lose 65 pounds, according to the documents.
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