The traffickers torture the migrants and beat them while they plead with relatives abroad by phone for money to meet their captors' demands.
But the defense and relatives pleaded for life, and Garrard told jurors she didn't mean to harm the girl.
Crew members of the ship, the Alakrana, had pleaded with their relatives on Thursday to press the Spanish government to do more to gain their release.
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Reports alleged that a group of hikers, stranded by a freak snowstorm in the Sinai wilderness, had frozen to death as their relatives pleaded with the army to send a rescue helicopter.
Armando Gutierrez, the spokesman for the Miami relatives, pleaded with the government to leave the family alone during Holy Week, and said federal officials should grant Elian his first Easter in the United States.
BUSINESS DAY, PAGE C1 Pleas in Child Abuse Case Two relatives pleaded guilty in the death of a New Jersey boy, 7, whose fate exposed failures in the state's child welfare system.
MADRID — Crew members of a Spanish fishing ship seized by Somali pirates over a month ago pleaded with their relatives on Thursday to press the Spanish government to do more to gain their release.
On Tuesday, two of the boy's relatives pleaded guilty to charges stemming from the death of the child, Faheem Williams, in a case that aroused national outrage and laid bare the failures of the state's child welfare system.
Mrs Gada also pleaded for her relatives to be allowed in to the UK, and said: "Losing a child is one of the hardest things a person can experience, and at this time myself and my husband are both longing for the support of our family".
