Santo Domingo – The case of the trafficking network that would sexually exploit women from South America by kidnapping them, prostituting them and taking all the money from sexual activities, continues in limbo, after the Public ministry failed to obtain all the testimonies he was seeking to support his theory against the accused in the so-called Operation Cattleya.
Judge Suinda Brito annulled the advance payment of evidence that she had granted to the prosecution body, because the alleged victims did not appear to testify.
Of the 80 alleged victims rescued by the Public Ministry from the network that was allegedly dedicated to bringing young Colombian women to the country to sexually exploit them, only four have given their testimony in support of the theory of the Public Ministry.
Recently, the prosecuting body asked the District Permanent Attention Office to allow it to interview some 22 victims; however, of those only two gave their testimonies and the rest never showed up for the interviews, which forced Judge Suinda Brito to annul the advance of evidence.
Meanwhile, the Public Ministry tries to obtain the necessary evidence to prove its theory that the women were brought to the country deceived and were forced to pay a debt of between 3,000 and 4,000 dollars, Judge Kenya Romero, ordered preventive detention in against 11 of those involved in the Cattleya case and imposed other measures of coercion on another 10 involved.
The case of Operation Cattleya was declared complex, so the Public Ministry has extended deadlines to carry out its investigations.
