The victim who helped bring Gomez in, who is an undocumented Venezuelan migrant, claimed that when she arrived to the supposed “job,” she was cornered by the alleged trafficker and ordered to get in a car.
A New York woman has been arrested and charged with sex trafficking, after the FBI discovered potentially "hundreds" of victims who were targeted by fake online job advertisements in the last 10 years.
Ysenni Gomez, 39, was taken into custody on August 12 and charged with trafficking women in the Bronx and Westchester County after law enforcement busted her orchestrated scheme, reported the Daily Mail.
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View on RumbleGomez allegedly posted ads on Facebook, Bedpage.com, and MegaPersonals.com to lure women into "waitressing" jobs in Manhattan. She specifically targeted Spanish-speaking illegal migrants with the advertisements, said the FBI.
Law enforcement tracked Gomez down earlier this month when an undercover officer responded to an ad on Bedpage.com that had a photo of a nearly naked woman on all fours and advertised, "Yonkers kitty cat available to tease outcall-23."
Gomez reportedly dropped off the prostitute associated with the ad at Tarrytown hotel, where officers were set up.
After the officer spoke briefly with the victim through Google Translate, Gomez was arrested, according to the New York Post.
The victim who helped bring Gomez in, who is an undocumented Venezuelan migrant, claimed that when she arrived to the supposed "job," she was cornered by the alleged trafficker and ordered to get in a car.
She was told that the "job" was fake, and was forced to have sex with men under threats that Gomez would report her for being in the country illegally and have her deported.
The victim said that she spent the next weeks being sex trafficked, getting sexually abused by at least three men a night for three nights a week.
In their investigation, federal authorities discovered a decade's worth of advertisements promoting prostitution, over 1,600, connected to Gomez.
While making the post she would cover her tracks using several different aliases, including "Ysenni Peguero" and "Carolina," as well as the phony business name "Chicas Express."
"We believe there are likely many more victims. This operation could have been going on for as many as 10 years," said FBI Supervisory Special Agent Brendan Kenny to the New York Post.
Kenney said that the FBI is still investigating to see if there are other traffickers involved in Gomez's operation.
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