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Posted: 2017-03-29T22:46:04Z | Updated: 2017-03-29T22:46:04Z

A young woman smuggled into the U.S. from Mexico said she endured two years of horrific abuse at the hands of a Florida woman who repeatedly tried to artificially inseminate her.

Those are the shocking allegations made in court documents filed against Esthela Clark, 47, of Jacksonville. Clark pleaded guilty Monday to one count of forced labor in connection with the case, the Justice Department announced.

Per the terms of a plea agreement , Clark, escaped more serious charges, including sex trafficking and involuntary servitude.

The Justice Department said that in 2012, Clark recruited a 22-year-old woman from Mexico and convinced her to come to the U.S. for the purpose of serving as her pregnancy surrogate. Clark told the woman, who has not been identified, that she would receive roughly $4,000 in exchange for participation in a medically supervised procedure. Clark then paid human smugglers, also known as coyotes, roughly $3,000 to smuggle the woman out of Mexico, authorities said.

The trip turned into two years of hell for the young woman.

The woman told investigators her first nine months in the country were spent enduring Clarks repeated attempts to impregnate her.

Clark and [her boyfriend] would have sex using a condom, according to a criminal complaint obtained by The Huffington Post. When [Clarks boyfriend] ejaculated, Clark would transfer the semen from the condom to a plastic syringe and then insert the semen into [the victims] vagina.

The young woman said she was subjected to injections three to four times a day when she was ovulating. When those efforts failed, she said Clark forced her to have sex with two complete strangers.

Things took a turn for the worse in March 2013.