A.J. FLICK

A Mexican man is accused of smuggling a brother and sister into the United States and raping the woman, who became pregnant and had his child.
A federal grand jury last week indicted Timoteo Santos Ramos, 28, on five smuggling charges, according to a news release yesterday from the U.S. Attorney's Office in Arizona.

Two charges stem from causing substantial risk of death or serious bodily injury to the woman for raping her, as well as causing extreme psychological injury by impregnating her.

"This is another example of the brutalization that human smugglers subject their paying customers to," said Kent Johansson, deputy special agent-in-charge of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in Tucson.

The siblings from Camalau, Baja California, Mexico, told federal agents in Fresno, Calif., last month that they paid Ramos $1,000 each to smuggle them into the country on two separate occasions in the spring of 2003.