OAKLAND — A married couple are facing charges of kidnapping, sexually assaulting, and trafficking a teen who reported to police that one of the defendants kidnapped her from Honduras and kept her in a shed in his San Leandro backyard for months, court records show.
Juan Aguilar, 41, and his wife, Margaret Wilson, 39, both of San Leandro, face charges of kidnapping to commit a sex crime, human trafficking of a minor, forcible rape, and forcible oral copulation. They have both pleaded not guilty; both are in Santa Rita Jail in Dublin on no-bail holds.
According to police, the nine-month ordeal for the teen — referred to in court records as Jane Doe — started last January when Aguilar allegedly kidnapped her at gunpoint from Honduras, and threatened that he would murder her grandmother if she went to the authorities. She said Aguilar raped her while they traveled together from Honduras to Guatemala, then sold her to a “coyote” — a person who would smuggle her inside the United States — who also sexually assaulted her.
The girl arrived in Texas in May, then was transported to San Leandro by someone investigators have yet to identify, according to court records. For the next five months, Aguilar and Wilson allegedly kept her in a shed in their backyard, where Aguilar “repeatedly raped her,” a police investigator wrote in court papers.
From then, investigators wrote, Wilson “groomed (Doe) into prostitution,” and took her to San Francisco, where Aguilar allegedly acted as “security” and carried a loaded gun while the girl was forced to perform sex work. The charging records also allege that Wilson forced Doe to perform a sex act on her in June.
The alleged crimes only came to light after Doe confided in Aguilar’s niece about what was going on; Aguilar’s niece in turn enlisted her mother to take them to San Francisco and file a police report. After his Oct. 5 arrest, “Aguilar admitted to having sex with (Doe) once in Mexico and four times in the United States,” San Leandro police Det. Joanna Villa wrote in court records. Wilson was also interviewed by police.
“When asked her relationship with (Doe), Wilson immediately said she felt (Doe) was being, ‘trafficked,” Villa wrote. “SLPD Detectives had not asked Wilson any questions regarding trafficking at this point in the interview. As the interview continued and SLPD Detectives pressed Wilson on her involvement, Wilson requested a lawyer.”The next court date, a pretrial hearing, has been set for Nov. 30. The court has not yet scheduled a preliminary hearing. where a judge will review evidence and decide whether to order the pair to stand trial.
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