{"id":348260,"date":"2026-06-05T17:27:42","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T17:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/348260\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T17:27:42","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T17:27:42","slug":"mexican-national-woman-sentenced-to-3-years-for-exploiting-minor-for-prostitution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/348260\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexican national woman sentenced to 3 years for exploiting minor for prostitution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 A Mexican national woman was convicted of sexually exploiting a minor into prostitution in Bakersfield.<\/p>\n<p>She was taken into custody by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and is being held while immigration officials decide whether she will be deported.<\/p>\n<p>[RELATED] <a href=\"https:\/\/kmph.com\/news\/crime\/missing-fresno-teen-girl-found-in-hotel-with-grown-man-in-santa-cruz-co-child-sex-arrest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Missing Fresno teen girl found in Santa Cruz Co hotel with grown man; child sex arrest<\/a><\/p>\n<p>ICE identified the woman as Sharon Cristina Cruz-Wences and described her as an illegal alien. <\/p>\n<p>She was sentenced to three years in prison for sexually exploiting a minor into prostitution.<\/p>\n<p>ICE\u2019s Fresno officers took custody of Cruz-Wences on May 26th from Central California Women\u2019s Facility. <\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>JOIN THE CONVERSATION (1)<\/p>\n<p>She will remain in custody pending a deportation decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 A Mexican national woman was convicted of sexually exploiting a minor into prostitution in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348261,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-348260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348260","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=348260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}