While governing Hispaniola, he tortured and mutilated natives who didn't bring him enough gold and sold girls as young as nine into  sexual slavery, and he was brutal even to the other  colonists he ruled, to the point that he was removed  from power and thrown in jail.
Enquanto governador de Hispaniola, torturou e mutilou os nativos que não lhe levavam ouro suficiente e vendeu raparigas de apenas nove anos  como escravas sexuais. Foi brutal mesmo para os outros colonos  que governava, ao ponto de ter sido afastado do poder  e metido na cadeia.