The young women escaped to “go to the bathroom because they felt bad” and asked for help. The men are detained for “human trafficking for sexual exploitation.”
A particular case surprised the news Uruguay: three Argentine women, between 25 and 30 years old, were rescued of two pimps that the they cheated. Although they knew they would travel to Punta del Este to practice prostitution, The conditions were not met upon arrival and the women experienced situations more similar to a kidnapping.
The case was revealed when The women asked a service station employee for help because they were kidnapped. The victims got out of a Volkswagen Gol with an Argentine license plate with the excuse that they needed to “go to the bathroom because they felt bad.”
They were arrested in the case a 40-year-old Argentine and a 46-year-old Uruguayancharged with “trafficking in persons for sexual exploitation”.
The statement of the three Argentine women kidnapped in Punta del Este
According to local media La Diariathe Argentine women claimed to be acquaintances of the detaineesthat they had brought them “on vacation” but that when they arrived they took “their cell phones, they put trackers and they locked them up,” only allowing them to go out with them.
Subsequently, through the investigation of Complex Facts and the first shift prosecutor specialized in Domestic, Sexual and Gender Violence, Mabel Britesit was determined that the women arrived in the country at the beginning of the month to “perform sexual work in Maldonado.” and they even suspect that the detainees forced them to have sexual encounters.
For its part, Channel 12’s Telemundo news reported that, once in Punta del Este, the men charged them rent for the apartment where they would stay in Maldonado. They withheld part of the money they earned doing sex work and left them incommunicadoonly allowing them to use their devices in front of them.
Source: Ambito
