Fired Miami social worker gets 1 1/2 years in prison for extorting families of refugee children

Fired Miami social worker gets 1 1/2 years in prison for extorting families of refugee children | Miami Herald:



Leslie Rubero Padilla Handout
As a newly hired employee for a Miami social services agency, Leslie Rubero Padilla’s job was to reunite unaccompanied refugee children with their parents or legal guardians in the United States.

She was supposed to charge the families only for transportation, such as airfare. But authorities say Rubero shook down more than a dozen of them by insisting they had to send her additional money or the reunification with their children would be delayed — or, worse, they would be deported back to their native country in Central America.

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