Suspect in horrific Alabama sex trafficking case confirmed to be member of notorious Sureños gang: DHS

Andres Trejo-Velazquez, 29. has been charged with five counts of rape, seven counts of sodomy, six counts of human trafficking, and four counts of kidnapping, per DHS.

"Homeland Security Investigations helped local authorities arrest one of the suspects uncovered in the horrifying Alabama child sex-trafficking ring: Sureños gang member, Andres Trejo-Velazquez," the DHS government account posted online, confirming his membership in the gang, which makes much of its money from human trafficking.

Trejo-Velazquez, along with Rebecca Brewer, 29; Sara Louise Terrell, 41; Ricky Terrell, 44; Dalton Terrell, 21; William Chase McElroy, also 21; and Timothy St. John, 23, all face a slew of charges in connection to a human trafficking ring in Bibb County, Alabama where victimized children faced abuse and sexual torture.

Trejo-Velazquez would allegedly drug the children by putting a powder in the children's drinks, according to charging documents. Clients would then come to rape the children, paying up to $1,000. The children who were held captive ranged from ages 2 to 15, and some of their own parents were allegedly holding them captive.

The victims included at least 10 children, some of whom belong to Trejo-Velazquez and Brewer, who have had three children together. Some of the alleged torture and sexual abuse included using a shock collar on the children's genitals as a form of punishment as well as a form of sexual gratification for the suspects.

After the children were rescued from last month, there has been calls for Alabama state legislators to demand the death penalty for the perpetrators.

“When you have situations like what happened in Bibb County, that would be up to the Bibb County prosecutor, but this would be a tool that they would have in their belt that they could if they decided to use that,” Republican Alabama State Rep. Matt Simpson said, per WSAZ3. Simpson as well as Republican State Sen. April Weaver are filing bills in the Alabama state House and Senate that would all for those convicted of sodomy or rape of a child younger than 12 years old eligible to get the death penalty.