Bogota police shut down 2nd human trafficking operation this week
Bogota police shut down 2nd human trafficking operation this week
Nov 13, 2014 posted by Victoria McKenzie
Colombian police have arrested ten people for duping underprivileged mothers into working as prostitutes in China, Singapore, and Panama, where they were held as indentured servants.
One of the allegedly dismantled rings specialized in deceiving young women fitting a certain physical profile into working as prostitutes in Asia and Central America, telling them that all travel, visa, and related costs would be covered.
Once overseas, the traffickers threatened to keep their passports and kill their families if the women did not continue to work as slaves, in unsanitary conditions.
Seven members of the criminal organization were apprehended.
Three members of a second human trafficking ring were also arrested in Bogota earlier this week. The group brought underage girls from the southwestern Valle del Cauca state by offering them jobs in the capital Bogota. The girls were subsequently forced to work in prostitution.
More:
http://colombiareports.co/members-international-human-trafficking-ring-caught/