{"id":345972,"date":"2026-06-04T04:25:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T04:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/345972\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T04:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T04:25:08","slug":"woman-sentenced-to-3-years-for-sexually-exploiting-minor-into-prostitution-in-bakersfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/345972\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman sentenced to 3 years for sexually exploiting minor into prostitution in Bakersfield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A Mexican woman was sentenced to three years in prison for sexually exploiting a minor into prostitution in Bakersfield, said the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo?fbid=1359497189700668&amp;set=a.186732563643809\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Wednesday night<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sharon Cristina Cruz-Wences was arrested by ICE Fresno officers on May 26, 2026, at the Central California Women&#8217;s Facility in Corona. Details about the crime are not yet available.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sharon Cristina Cruz-Wences. Photo: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Facebook)\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/c719df39-2094-429d-aea3-d65c9bd43189-SHARONCRISTINACRUZWENCES.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Sharon Cristina Cruz-Wences. Photo: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Facebook)<\/p>\n<p>Cruz-Wences is detained pending a deportation decision, said officials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A Mexican woman was sentenced to three years in prison for sexually exploiting a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":345973,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-345972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}