Federal prosecutors say the 27-year-old admitting smuggling at least 25 migrants between March 2022 and June 2022
A man pleaded guilty in San Diego federal court Wednesday to human smuggling charges, including an admission that he sexually assaulted a 17-year-old undocumented immigrant he was bringing into the United States. Cecilio Jimenez-Bautista, 27, admitted in a plea agreement to acting as a guide for the unaccompanied girl and other migrants traveling into the U.S. from Mexico between March 2022 and June 2022.
Prosecutors say Jimenez-Bautista 'isolated the juvenile from the group' and inappropriately touched her without permission on two separate days. On the third day, he sexually assaulted her, leaving her with serious injuries, prosecutors allege. The group was eventually arrested by U.S. Border Patrol agents near Otay Lakes Road in Chula Vista, about 2 miles north of the U.S-Mexico border, according to the plea agreement. Jimenez-Bautista is slated to be sentenced in January.
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