A Queens family was found guilty Thursday of running a horrific years-long underage prostitution operation and bribing a small-town cop with free sexual services to look the other way while they trafficked their teenage victims.
Luz Elvira Cardona, 35, her partner Jose Facundo Zarate Morales, 34, her mother Blanca Hernandez, 53, and her mom’s partner, Roberto Cesar Cid Dominguez, 60, were all convicted Thursday after a four-week jury trial in Brooklyn Federal Court.
Cardona and her relatives were so callous that she turned her own niece into a victim — a 15-year-old girl who wanted to come to the U.S. from Mexico in 2007 to get a job at as a cleaner and start a better life, federal prosecutors said.
