Men forced woman into prostitution

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wo Hispanic men are behind bars in Nashville after police said they held a young woman against her will and forced her into prostitution.

Arturo Perez and Jesus Garcia are charged with promoting prostitution and trafficking for sexual servitude after police said they would make the 22-year-old from Mexico City have sex with up to seven men a day.

To make her obey investigators said they would stab and cut the young woman with an ice pick and threaten to kill her family.

"It is serious enough that for the first time ever we're using the sexual servitude statute to charge these two individuals," Metro police spokesperson Don Aaron told News 2. "It's quite despicable that a woman would be treated like this by an individual that has, obviously, no regard for her mental or physical well-being."

Perez and Garcia were arrested after police learned of the situation and sent a confidential informant to meet the men at a south Nashville motel.

"We learned this woman was not a willing participant, but being held against her will in a sexual servitude situation," Aaron said.

Metro police said Perez, Garcia and the young woman are in the country illegally.

They are scheduled to appear in court Tuesday.