Two men identified as Gregore Arnaldo Palomino Arellano and Hugo de Jesús Ramírez Gil were charged by the Colombian Prosecutor’s Office for the crime of human trafficking and sexual exploitation of a young Venezuelan woman in Medellín, Antioquia.
A Colombian guarantee control judge imposed a measure of custodial confinement in a prison on these two men, the Prosecutor’s Office reported in a Press release spread on his Twitter account @FiscaliaCol.
One of the defendants, Gregore Arnaldo Palomino Arellano, moved to Caracas and apparently contacted the 17-year-old teenager and convinced her to travel to Colombia in the midst of remunerative promises.
The evidence shows that the young woman accepted the offer and arrived at a house in the Las Mercedes neighborhood, in Medellín, where Hugo de Jesús Ramírez Gil, 60, would have kept her locked up and subjected her to sexual activities.
While she was in the building, the Venezuelan teenager became pregnant and suffered a miscarriage.
Later, she was abandoned on the street because she refused to have intimate relationships due to her delicate state of health.
The Center for Comprehensive Care for Victims of Sexual Abuse (Caivas) assumed the investigation and coordinated the protocol for assistance and restoration of rights to minors.
The evaluations carried out by Legal Medicine revealed that, in addition to the degrading treatment, the young woman was infected with a sexually transmitted disease.
The Government of Colombia has the application libertappavailable in the IOS and Android stores, to report possible cases of human trafficking which, according to statistics from the United Nations Organization, 30% of the victims are minors.
