Purpose

The purpose of this website is to provide life saving information to the residents of Pilsen and any community in which this predatory woman and her circle of pedophiles that infiltrated many aspects of the volunteer, teaching and school committees in PIlsen, Chicago IL in the past 30 years.

Sharing My Story:

I have feared for my life since she first sold me out after securing my parent trust and allowing others to violate me while she watched and profited off mine and other children under the age of 7. I will remain anonymous for my safety but I will not remain quiet ever again- In hopes this message reaches the proper channels and no other children suffer as I once did and continue to suffer from C-PTSD.

Socorro (Flores) Zapata is a child trafficer, a pedofile and a predator hiding in “community building roles”. My story begins when I was about 3 years old. We lived in a building (Resurrection Project) where “community” was key. However, the community we lived in was also full of other people who had the same pedophilic, and abusive tendencies masking as a “pillar of community”.

Abusers and master manipulators of this caliber tend to stick with each other and create secret groups and support each other into leadership or "sympathetic roles”.

In this case Soccoro infiltrated many spaces and community run programs as a “helping hand” specifically targeting: Undocumented Immigrants, Immigrants, Single parents but specifically young single vulnerable women with young children or infants.

Our home at the time was Casa Puebla circa 10+ years. It has been through therapy and medical support that I no longer fear exposing and speaking my truth. It can be very triggering when Channel 7 News posts a highlight on the woman who has been trafficking, sexually exploiting children and managing a ring around a religious institution for over 20 years under every administration's nose, also bleeding into Harrison Parks Swimming team.

She resided on the third floor of the building next to the trashcan shute, a convenient position next to the alley entrance of the building. My mom had asked Socorro to babysit me around the time my mom began school to complete her GED. She babysat me on and oﬀ for about 2 1/2 years.

The first visits were filled with movies, light naps, and some snacking, sometimes she’d take me to the park. Slowly the grooming and brainwash began to take root- whatever movies we watched became more violent, explicit mostly. This is a tactic used by abusers to desensitize and scare children into silence and obedience.

She would show me snuff films, people being tortured, tied up and screaming. The worst aspect was that it was the faces of children mainly under 10. I recognized this because of how small and scared they were- and the way I felt has no language except fear and now in my adulthood disassociation.

I didn’t know what I was watching until I was older and realized they were her own videos, previously made. All I know is that those images have been the source of nightmares, and a sleeping disorder I might never recover from but have managed to keep under some control.

I'm unsure where any of this footage remains. Her crimes go beyond exposing children under 7 to this kind of illegal content.

My own nightmare began before I turned 4. I was left alone with one of the men who used to work at the church (St.PIus V Parish) we went to. Which I am also an alumn of as well previously a Big Shoulders Scholar too. I asked why he was there and he just replied by forcing me to strip naked.

One man who’d continuously show up was a man who lived in the same building as us. This showed me that Soccoro had infiltrated the building and built a clientele using the children she was tasked to care for as objects for sale.

When these encounters began I would scream in fear and panic for Socorro wondering where the person meant to keep me safe was and wondering why I was being treated in such a manner. But as it kept occurring I began to notice her watching from the door without remorse or care encouraging this behavior- selling me out for her sick pleasure.

The men would enter the room and forcibly take my clothing off continuously. This became routinely inserting their digits in my orifices forcefully while she watched and recorded.

This routine remained the same for about a year- until I started fighting back and shoving them off as I was exhausted from being abused several times a week. From that moment forward I began to be forcibly injured and painfully forced to be nude in Socorro's bedroom with a camera given to the man to record all my angles and movements this would be circa 2005-2006. They would pleasure themselves while asking me to dance or move around or even play with my dolls . What should have been an innocent experience in my childhood of regular play became a trigger and scary aspect of my life.

Sometimes I would have to stay in a stretched posture with my legs open on a chair just facing them while they peered at me. Sometimes I’d have to be in child’s pose since they weren’t allowed to penetrate any longer.

Her Rules still echo in my mind reiterated to every man that would come in:

“No member penetration, no bruising, only hands.”

A particularly traumatizing time for me was when a group of men came in and I was able to recognize them from church, specifically the man who read the psalms every Sunday. They proceeded to pleasure themselves into a cup their intention was for me to consume this- I refused and began to cry until they forced me to pour it onto my hands and legs. They proceeded to force me to remain nude and dance for them and play with my dolls. This particular scenario was repeated for what feels like 4 months, my only markers being the seasons around me changing as well as my clothing.

After being desensitized to this she began involving more children.

Now is when she began exposing me to CSAM of other children, some I recognized, this filled me with a physical feeling I get in my nightmares. I was extremely afraid of her and felt that if I complained I would end up like the initial videos of those children. My 4 yr old brain couldn’t understand why I was being punished and treated this way.

I noticed the men exchanging money and gifts every time she’d escort me to the room, I often have nightmares about how I was treated like an object to be sold at such a young age.

By the time I was 5 it had dwindled. I was no longer some men’s favorite. I was simply “muy grande” (too old)- as described by Socorro. She said it could be useful for other things now. When those words came out of her mouth I remember feeling physically sick and wanting to vomit.

I wanted to tell someone, and she could tell my resistance and fear had escalated . I couldn't. Socorro had created rumors about my mother by then- threatened to send the tapes to my mother and say that I choose to get filmed.

She threatened me, and in my childhood brain I was afraid, I was violated and full of shame. She said that she would show everyone what a disgusting child I was to “beg” to be filmed. I was also afraid to be physically harmed by her. She made me believe the only way to protect my family from shame was to keep quiet.

I was too young to feel anything aside from fear and deep pain- my final memories are of her allowing men to harm her only son Ramses Flores, I believed him to be my friend and I felt great fear for him- because he lived with her. She forced us to do things for these men furthering my shame, fear and disgust.

There was no escape in any sense, my tears fueled their disgusting behavior and to this day connecting to any feelings without feeling shame for expression of regular emotions comes extremely difficult.

The idea of happiness would be ruined simply because of a woman who chose to hurt others because she’s nothing but a pedofile a predator who craved the need to have power over innocent children.

At the end of these situations she made sure to threaten me before my mom would come pick me up. She’d put on hocus pocus for me to watch to distract and calm down before she gave me the same lecture about exposing me to the world. She would continue to threaten me that she would continue to lie about my mom and continued to turn several people against her.

My mother at the time was only studying, working and trying to get a better life. While someone she trusted with her kids was taking advantage.

This is where my warning about a predator pretending to take care of her “community” by offering childcare with an extremely predatory agenda.

Soccoro exploited my body, sold me to men, recorded me and turned people who supported my mother against her by abusing her position in the “community” she pretends to assist. We left this parochial community for these reasons, how she has remained in such a good position is not strange to me- especially if she has a multitude of blackmail and manipulation against many in the community.

She is a dangerous woman who positions herself as a community pillar, only to have access to young children from vulnerable backgrounds and vulnerable families, I share my story to educate, warn and alert potential victims and to share and encourage other victims to also speak out.

Associated Locations and Organizations:

● Saint Pius V Church

● Saint Pius V ; Lunch Lady and head of the soup kitchen

● Resurrection Project Housing; Long term housing and the main grounds of single, low-income parents seeking childcare she was very willing to provide.

Links

St.Pius V School:

Parish: https://stpiusvparish.org/

1919 S. Ashland Avenue

Chicago, IL 60608

312-226-6161

https://www.saintpiusv.org/

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