Immigrant speaks to ABC-7 about her experience while fleeing Honduras

Although the woman ABC-7 spoke with does not qualify to gain any type of citizenship under the new executive order President Obama put forth Thursday night, she wanted to share her story so people can understand the horrors immigrants go through in search of a better life.

This woman a native Honduran didn’t want to show her face or release her name.
She tells ABC-7 she fled Honduras in June.

“In my country two to three deaths a day is normal,” because of gangs the woman tells ABC-7.

The mother of two says the cities of Honduras are controlled by organized crime.

She fled and took a bus to Mexico with her youngest son looking for a better life.

That’s when she says her nightmare began.

The woman told ABC-7 men wearing police uniforms stopped the bus and took 20 people away including her and her son

“It turned out to be a cartel,” she said.

She tells ABC-7 they were kidnapped and asked to call their families for ransom money.

Those who couldn’t come up with the money were taken at night and never seen again.

She said she was kept in warehouse for a few weeks then moved to another warehouse closer to the border.

Her family couldn’t afford the ransom money so the cartel put her to work.

“I would cook for them, I would wash and I had to pay in other ways,” the woman told ABC-7.

The woman said she was raped for three months while she was held captive

“At least they didn’t do it in front of my son,” she told ABC-7.

ABC-7 asked her if they ever abused her son and she said no but there was several days they went without eating.

In the end her captures set them free and she headed for the United States where she was caught by the Border Patrol.

Now the woman is seeking asylum in hopes of starting a new life but she still worries about her 10-year-old son who’s still in Honduras.

“In three years the gangs will be looking to take him as well,” the woman said.

The woman was released on bond and now is awaiting trial.

On Friday she leaves El Paso for New Jersey where she has family waiting for her.