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Fort Myers man charged in sex slave trade

Federal investigators have arrested a Florida man accused of smuggling two women, who thought they were coming to do legitimate farm work, into the country from Mexico and selling them into slavery. FBI officials say 30-year-old Eliseo Santizo sold the 24-year-old woman and the 14-year-old teenager in Fort Myers where they were told they had to work as prostitutes to pay off a $2,700 debt.

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