Investigative Police arrested today in Maipú a married couple of Haitian citizens aged 37 and 38 accused of the alleged crime of human trafficking for using a girl in forced labor and practices similar to slavery.
According to police information, he recorded Thirdthe couple, a resident of the country, in 2012 “fraudulently” captured a 10-year-old girl in Haiti, who was transferred clandestinely to the Dominican Republic.
In that country, the marriage would have forced her to do domestic work, in addition to being threatened through physical and psychological violence. In 2015, the defendants managed false documents with the girl’s birth information, where she was passed off as her daughter and assigned a new name. When she arrived in Chile in 2016, the minor continued to suffer harassment and was subjected to servitude through violence¿ and where she was not allowed interaction with the social environment or schooling.
It was when the young woman turned 18, that she managed to flee and the complaint with the police originated, before which an investigation was requested in 2020 by the Western Prosecutor’s Office to make her PDI
In this regard, he stated Third, Deputy Prefect José Contreras, head of the Trafficking in Persons Investigative Brigade, explained that “these practices are evidenced in the strenuous work days that this girl had in the care of the family, cleaning tasks, child care, gardening and everything It has to do with housework.
The police officer stated that “the facts are in total contradiction with the International Convention on the Rights of the Child” and “clearly in our country this constitutes a totally serious fact”, that although the couple had an adoption document, “apparently that documentation is not valid”, since “the adoption items are controversial”.
