Police: Labor trafficker exploits migrant seeking child support from Venezuelan MLB player

MIAMI – A woman told a detective that she grew frustrated when she and her two daughters were struggling with food shortages in Venezuela while the girl’s father was playing baseball professionally in the United States, records show.

She told the detective that after she and the baseball player broke up in 2017, and he refused to pay child support in 2018, a neighbor connected her to a Miami-based attorney who promised David Odúbel Herrera was going to pay.

The woman said the attorney was very generous. She mailed gifts to Maracaibo from Miami. The kindness ended when the victim had lost all control over her finances and she was an isolated migrant in the U.S., according to Doral Detective Kelsey Beinvenu.

Jeneffer Natally Gaskin Azuaje, who falsely identified as an attorney, was really a Venezuelan American labor trafficker in Florida, according to Beinvenu, also a member of the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office human trafficking task force.