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A 16-year-old girl was reported missing and was found with her hair trimmed in a lodging in El Alto. An 11-year-old girl was captured through social networks and appeared in Arequipa, Peru.
In less than a week, more than five girls and adolescents were victims of trafficking and abduction in the departments of La Paz, Santa Cruz, Chuquisaca and Tarija. The victims are between 10 and 17 years old.
The cases are investigated for the crimes of kidnapping or trafficking. Two victims were captured through social networks.
First case
On Tuesday, a 14-year-old girl disappeared in the town of Mataral, which is located in the valleys of the department of Santa Cruz.
On Thursday, the minor was found and helped by a woman in El Tambo, a town 50 kilometers from Mataral.
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The parents of the victim reported the disappearance in the Los Negros community, but receiving no response from the authorities, they and the neighbors blocked the road on Wednesday to demand the search for the teenager. The Police investigate the case.
According to the investigation, the teenager stated that she left her house to buy folder sheets and on the way she was intercepted by three people, who forced her to get into a van. She recounted that she escaped from her captors and sought help.
second case
On Tuesday, a mother reported that her 11-year-old daughter was kidnapped and said that the little girl was intercepted near her school by two people, who put her in a car and took her to an unknown destination. The case occurred in the city of Sucre.
Days later, the Police and the Prosecutor’s Office assured that there was no kidnapping, but confirmed that the investigation will continue and indicated that they await the results of the biological and physical examinations to find out what happened to the little girl, according to the newspaper Correo del Sur.
third case
An 11-year-old girl was captured through the TikTok platform and the Free Fire online game by an unknown person, who convinced her to leave her home, according to the police investigation. The girl disappeared on Monday after leaving for her school in the city of La Paz and was found on Wednesday in Arequipa, Peru.
On Monday, April 25, the victim left her home for her school. The family waited for the girl’s return, but she did not appear.
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The next day, Tuesday the 26th, the parents filed the complaint with the Police. They said that the girl accessed the online game Free Fire and other social networks. They had suspicions that the little girl met people on those platforms and she was induced to leave her house.
fourth case
On Thursday, the Police of Bermejo (Tarija) began an investigation into an alleged kidnapping of minors on Wednesday, at 6:25 p.m., between La Paz and Potosí-Mariscal Santa Cruz streets.
According to the complaint, a 10-year-old boy was the victim of a possible attempted kidnapping. According to the departmental director of the Special Force to Fight Crime (Felcc), Raúl Castro Ortiz, the victim stated that two people forced him into the vehicle. The boy said that two other minors were inside the vehicle.
fifth case
A 16-year-old girl who was reported missing was found Thursday in a lodging in the city of El Alto. The girl was in the company of two women, who had offered her a job in Santa Cruz. In addition, they cut the young woman’s hair to change her image and evade controls, according to the police report.
Network risks
- Research In November of last year, two minors aged 13 and 17 were captured through Free Fire and TikTok, according to the Special Force to Fight Crime (Felcc). The policemen tracked the addresses of the equipment (IP) and knew the places where the victims were identified.
- Case That same week, the Police rescued another nine-year-old girl in the Yungas of La Paz. According to the investigation, the victim ran away from her house after leaving a note saying that she was “going to work.” It was determined that she was recruited through Free Fire. That same month, Gideón R., 14, returned to the country after being captured through Free Fire and disappearing for more than a month.
