Screaming sex-trafficking victim is dragged back to captivity after attempting to flee from illegal migrant

Daily Mail​

6 days ago

Startling surveillance video captures a woman screaming for help as she is forcibly carried back into a trailer home in Texas, where authorities say she was held as a sex slave for nearly a week.
Jose Armando Carcamo-Perdomo, a 22-year-old undocumented migrant from Honduras, was arrested on July 14 and faces charges of aggravated kidnapping and assault after Harris County Police discovered a woman being held captive inside his Houston home.
The harrowing footage, recorded by a neighbor's security camera, shows Carcamo-Perdomo carrying the woman - identified only as a Chinese migrant - in a bear-hug grip as she kicks and struggles to escape.
A dog can be heard loudly barking in the background as the woman shrieks for help.
'She tried to leave, but this defendant carried her back inside the residence without her consent,' a Harris County judge said. 'He tied her up and then sexually assaulted her.'
Investigators say the woman had traveled from New York to Houston after being offered a higher-paying job as a masseuse.
But upon arriving, her passport was taken, and she was locked in a small closet without food or water, according to the Harris County Sheriff's Office.
After at least five days in captivity, she managed to escape the closet and run from the trailer.
However, Carcamo-Perdomo caught her outside and dragged her back inside as a concerned neighbor looked on.
'As soon as I drove out of the fence at work, I called 911 to report a possible child abduction,' the neighbor told ABC 7.
When police arrived at the home on Elderberry Lane, near Beltway 8 and Highway 90, they found the woman 'bound by her hands.'
'There was a small closet with a piece of wood across the door that was screwed into the frame,' Lieutenant John Klafka, chief of the adult special crimes unit at the Harris County Sheriff's Office, told Fox News.
'They were able to rip that piece of wood off and open the door. It had been tied up. She had some type of object like a sock or something that was used to bound her hands.'
Despite the evidence, the suspect claimed he didn't know anything about the woman in his home, according to Click 2 Houston.
'He knew there was someone in the house, but he claimed to have never seen her or said it was a woman that lived there but didn't know her, didn't see her, has never had any interactions with her,' Klafka told the outlet.
According to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Carcamo-Perdomo entered the U.S. illegally in 2020 and was issued a notice to appear following a traffic stop.
In 2023, however, an immigration judge dismissed the case, Fox News reported.
In response to the incident, the DHS issued a statement calling for stricter immigration enforcement, saying the department is 'working day and night' to remove 'heinous' individuals.
'This heinous criminal illegal alien was freely roaming our interior and terrorizing American communities,' the DHS wrote on X, formerly Twitter.
'Under the leadership of President Trump and Secretary Noem, ICE is working day and night to remove the MILLIONS of illegal aliens in our interior. LAW AND ORDER WILL PREVAIL!'
Authorities now suspect the case may be part of a broader human trafficking operation, Click 2 Houston reported.
'He obviously is not the one that drove her from New York,' Klafka said.
'He's not the person that drove her from the first location in Houston. And we know there's other people involved.'
Klafka emphasized that the woman did not know Carcamo-Perdomo before the incident and described the ordeal as a traumatic experience for a migrant with no local support.
'This is a very traumatic event. You know, you're in a foreign country. You were brought from one giant city to another that's halfway across the country south,' he said.
'She has no friends, no family. Nobody is here for her. So we've got to do everything we can to ensure that she can trust us to do our jobs and find the rest of the people that are involved in this.'
Carcamo-Perdomo's attorney has released a statement maintaining his client's innocence.
'Our client, Mr. Jose Carcamo, is shocked by the serious allegations brought forth against him and firmly maintains his complete innocence. We remind the public that under the United States Constitution, every individual is entitled to the presumption of innocence, the right to due process, and a fair trial.'
The unidentified woman is currently receiving medical care and counseling at an undisclosed location and the investigation is ongoing.