Maria, a farmworker from Guatemala, says never again will she look at any supervisor with the same trust she once had. The 40-year-old mother of three was hired last November to pick pomegranates near Huron. Her supervisor told her he would pick her up an hour earlier than the rest of the crew. She was puzzled, but needed the work. But the early pick-up turned into a sexual assault when the supervisor drove to an alley in Huron and attempted to rape her in the back of the van, putting his hand over her mouth and holding her wrists while trying to take her pants off. Maria was in shock. She was able to fend him off, and a few days later -- at the urging of her husband and with the help of...
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