Hundreds of women are victims of sexual harassment every day in the United States and most of them do not report the abuse for fear of being deported. That is the case of four Colombian women who for months and even years endured that their boss was morbid and even groped them during their working hours.
However, the women reached their limit and decided put a stop to Feliz Cortés, 55 years old, owner of “La Cocina de Martina” and they spoke openly about the case in front of the microphones of NBC Miami, but not before the corresponding authorities for fear of being deported to their country.
According to three of the four women, who preferred to keep their names anonymous, they have been in the United States for several years, but do not have a work permit, a position that Cortés he used it on several occasions in his favor to make their lives even more complicated.
“He never missed the opportunity to stand behind (one) to supposedly check our orders. Verbally it was morbid”, one of the complainants told Telemundo.
Another of the victims denounced that her boss not only harassed her verbally, but went further: “He rubbed my breasts very followed by touching the front and back. It rubbed his member”.
Cortés’s actions led one of the complainants to act, but her fear was stronger and she preferred to remain silent: “I told more than one, I tried to go to the police , I don’t do it because I’m a single mother, I have three children (and) the last thing I wanted was trouble”. employee, but she did report it to the police.
According to the victim’s account to the local media 10, Cortés began to harass her from the first day she entered the work through sexual and obscene comments.
The police were not indifferent to the acts of harassment of Felix Cortés and although he was arrested, he is free on bail while waiting to appear before a judge accused sexual harassment and assault.