Illegal immigrants sentenced for sex trafficking minors in Nebraska

Two illegal immigrants from South America were sentenced to prison Monday for sex trafficking minors in Nebraska.

Michel Daiana Martinez-Gonzalez, 29, of Colombia, and Alfredo Manuel Zambrano-Hurtado, 26, of Venezuela, entered the United States illegally in 2022. In January 2025, the Omaha Police Department responded to a reported theft and found evidence of sex trafficking.

The Omaha Police Department’s Homeland Security Investigations Human Trafficking Task Force immediately began investigating and rescued two girls, 15 and 16, who were being sex trafficked. Six suspects were arrested for their suspected involvement.

“There is no greater evil than the kind of evil that financially profits from the sex trafficking of a child by force and from enslaving children in the commercial sex trade,” U.S. Attorney Lesley Woods said in a press release.

Zambrano-Hurtado transported the girls from out of state to the AmericInn hotel in Omaha, Nebraska, to perform commercial sex. A man named Eduardo Jose Perdomo arranged for the traffickers and girls to stay at the AmericInn hotel in exchange for the staff to be able to have sex with the two girls whenever they wanted.

The girls told investigators Martinez-Gonzalez and Perdomo advertised them online and arranged for them to perform sex acts with buyers. Martinez-Gonzalez admitted to law enforcement she knew the girls were minors and had paid a man in the Dominican Republic for two online commercial sex advertisements.

One of the advertisements was meant to promote commercial sex with Martinez-Gonzalez, but she eventually started sending her buyers to the two girls so she didn’t have to do it anymore, according to the release.

Martinez-Gonzalez has been sentenced for two counts of sex trafficking of a minor by force, each of which carries a maximum sentence of life imprisonment, according to the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Nebraska.

Martinez-Gonzalez will serve over 17 years in prison without parole followed by five years of supervised release.

“Martinez-Gonzalez exploited children in an unthinkable manner for her own selfish gain,” Woods said in the release. “She illegally immigrated to the United States to commit the worst crimes imaginable against children in our country. She deserves every second, minute, hour, and month of her federal prison sentence and more.

“Human traffickers are not welcome in Nebraska, and they would be wise to leave before we catch them because no mercy will be shown to them if we get to them first.”

Zambrano-Hurtado has been sentenced for two counts of sex trafficking of a minor and will serve 15 years in prison without parole followed by five years of supervised release. Zambrano-Hurtado and Martinez-Gonzalez are also required to pay special assessments of $10,000 under the Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act.

Perdomo is scheduled to be sentenced July 20.

“Not all prisons have bars on the doors,” Woods said. “Homeland Security Investigations freed these children from a physical and mental prison when they tore down this criminal organization and ripped them out of Nebraska’s streets and put real bars between these human traffickers and the innocent children they were preying on daily.”