Virgins recruited as sex slaves for Colombian drug lords - reports
Virgins recruited as sex slaves for Colombian drug lords - reports
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation - Mon, 27 Apr 2015 15:26 GMT
BOGOTA, April 27 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When Colombian authorities intercepted phone calls between a young woman and a member of Colombia's most powerful drug cartel, the Urabenos, they heard the woman offer merchandise with "zero kilometers". But the 23-year-old human trafficker, known by her alias Paola, was not referring to a car's mileage but to virgin girls she had recruited and groomed to serve as sex slaves for kingpins of the notorious organised crime network.
In excerpts of the taped phone calls published in Colombia's La Semana magazine, Paola is also heard offering up her 11-year-old sister to have sex with a man who is an alleged gang member.
As part of a massive manhunt for Colombia's most wanted drug lord, Dairo Antonio Usuga, known as Otoniel, who authorities say is the leader of the Urabenos, Paola and 71 others have been arrested in recent days.
Paola allegedly recruited girls aged between 11 and 16 into forced prostitution, preying on poor and vulnerable teenagers at the school gates in Colombia's northwestern Uraba region, from which the Urabenos name derives.
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Again.
And as Obama says there is a door that can be opened to the permanent cure to slavery - living wages and jobs with dignity, the key is education.
That these monsters would prey at the gates of public elementary and middle schools is something I hope the sentencing judge takes into account in a major way.
As an aside, things like the TPP offer hope to impoverished nations like Colombia, because do not forget reciprocal TPP country's workers will benefit - and so too will their liberty and ability to not be recruited into slavery because of pervasive, punishing poverty
Isn't that a good thing a liberal, progressive world view thing that liberals want - decent wages and jobs for the overseas proletariat, suppressed, underpaid, overworked, powerless laborers that sew America's clothing and delicately put together the world's affordable electronic gadgets by the hundreds of millions of units and products?
