Colombia’s prosecution said Tuesday that it had dismantled a human trafficking ring that allegedly tricked more than 100 girls and women into working as sex slaves in Trinidad and Tobago.
Three women from La Dorada, Caldas were arrested on charges that for 10 years they had recruited girls and women between 15 and 19 from the small town with promises they would be able to find work abroad.
The girls were then sent to Trinidad and Tobago, and forced to work in the Caribbean country’ sex industry, the Prosecutor General’s Office said in a press release.
The suspected recruiters of the human trafficking ring were sent to jail in Ibague, Tolima while awaiting trial on human trafficking charges.
The Prosecutor General’s Office said it had filed an international arrest warrant for a fourth suspect, who allegedly received the victims and put them to work in Trinidad and Tobago. The woman is suspected of being the mastermind of the sex trafficking operation.
According to the prosecution, the prime suspect would report victims who refused to work or fell ill with authorities of the Caribbean nation state, securing their arrest and imprisonment.
In the most recent statement received in Colombia, one of the victims of this structure pointed out that in the immigration service she was with 28 young Colombian women recruited in the same way and that in prison she shared a cell with nearly 80 women, all victims to the human trafficking network.
Prosecutor General’s Office
Prosecutor Mario Gomez of the prosecution unit in charges of crimes against children and adolescents urged women and girls to “not believe in foreign job offers with exorbitant salaries, this is a fable.”
No crea en ofertas laborales en el extranjero con sueldos exorbitantes #EsoEsCuento. Si conoce alguna actividad sospechosa o es víctima de trata de personas, denuncie en Colombia al 018000522020 o desde el celular al 122, y desde el exterior al 0180009197478 pic.twitter.com/C1IhcwAKKy
— Fiscalía Colombia (@FiscaliaCol) October 3, 2018
According to the United States’ Department of State, which monitors global human trafficking, Colombian authorities had “identified 96 trafficking victims” last year.
“Of these, 69 were exploited in sex trafficking, 12 in forced labor, two in forced begging, and 13 were unknown,” the State Department said in its 2018 report.
“NGOs acknowledged improved coordination, but criticized delays in service delivery, lack of long-term victim assistance, lack of attention to vulnerable populations, and lack of systematic verification of quality of care,” the report said.
Colombia is both a source, destination and transit country for human traffickers who subject their victims “to sex trafficking and forced labor in Colombia and throughout Latin America, Asia, and Europe,” said the State Department.
https://colombiareports.com/colombia-dismantles-ring-that-forced-more-than-100-girls-and-women-to-work-as-sex-slaves-abroad/
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carmencita ago
WOW. This is a horrible case of abuse, and who knows how horrid the abuse was. Some may even have been subjected to SRA for all we know. Thank God another ring has been broken and that the Children and Women were rescued.
I cant wait to find out the name of that woman. Will it be someone connected to a High Level Office in the US or EU? My suspense is mounting.
fogdryer ago
,,,,,Clinton has helped Frank Giustra, biggest donors to the C G I, score meetings with high-ranking Colombian officials. Giustra has several business interests in the country, both he and Clinton have collaborated on an effort to fight poverty by partnering up with mining companies in Colombia and elsewhere. and whom Bill personally introduced to Colombian President Uribe (Giustra is the same guy Clinton helped land a uranium deal in Kazakhstan.
2007, Clinton received an award from President Uribe for his efforts to reverse the country’s image in the United States. t “the Colombia government [was] trying to counter its negative image among Washington Democrats and secure congressional passage of a free trade agreement.”
Bill hosted a “philanthropic event” with the Colombian leaders in Sept 2005. The purpose, , was to introduce Uribe to Frank Giustra, a Canadian mining tycoon who was interested both in mineral rights and Colombian oil, a position that lent itself to a more open-trade environment.
The Clinton WH used a poll commissioned by a very interested party to help provide cover for the Colombian initiative
. Here’s how it worked:
defense contractor Lockheed Martin commissioned Democratic pollster Mark Mellman to conduct a poll which concluded that 56 percent of registered voters would support $2 billion being spent on “tracking planes to be flown in drug-producing areas.” Lockheed’s smart bomb hit its mark: five months after this manufactured mandate was presented to the president, he proposed the $1.3 billion package, confident that he could shake “the will of the people” (or at least the 800 people Mellman offered his tailor-made questions to) in the face of opponents.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/ https://consortiumnews.com/2016/05/19/the-clinton-colombia-connection/ https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/clinton-donors
carmencita ago
Did you know the head of Interpol is missing? Since Sept. 25th. I am wondering if this has anything to do with the pope and his dealings with the Catholic Church in China
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/interpol-chief-reportedly-vanishes-on-visit-to-china/ar-BBNYn2C?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=U346DHP