The matriarch of a family-run prostitution ring operating out of Brooklyn and Queens has been sentenced to 10 years in prison.
Authorities say the enterprise smuggled women from Mexico to New York, where they were sometimes violently coerced to perform sex acts.
Consuelo Carreto Valencia had pleaded guilty in Brooklyn last July to one sex-trafficking count.
Valencia was accused of beating the women to enforce discipline and maintained custody of their young children in her home.
She took a 16-year-old girl for an abortion, then warned her she would be required to work harder to repay the family for the procedure, Assistant U.S. Attorney Monica Ryan wrote in court papers.
Veronica Romero, an victim who spoke yesterday, was shocked by Valencia's response when she threatened to leave the sex business and return home to her mother, The Daily News reported.
Two of Carreto's sons and a friend pleaded guilty previously to more than two dozen criminal counts. The sons were sentenced to 50 years and the friend to 25.