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Judi Lynn

(160,515 posts)
Tue Nov 14, 2017, 07:26 PM Nov 2017

Medellin becoming major destination for foreign predators


written by Adriaan Alsema November 14, 2017

Hidden among foreign visitors to Medellin are an increasing number of pedophiles looking to exploit the city’s child prostitution, according to a prominent local crime analyst.

Luis Fernando Quijano of the local Corporation for Peace and Social Development (CORPARES) said that this underground sex market is run by the city’s crime syndicate, La Oficina, together with foreign operators.

The local and foreign pimps receive pedophiles from across the globe with sex packages “with everything included. Drugs, children, adolescents, women, men or the complete package, with security and all that kind of stuff.”

Quijano could not say how many foreign predators would be coming to Medellin for sex, but he has witnessed a significant increase.

More:
https://colombiareports.com/medellin-becoming-major-destination-foreign-predators/
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Medellin becoming major destination for foreign predators (Original Post) Judi Lynn Nov 2017 OP
This is horrible. MontanaMama Nov 2017 #1
A significant increase in child prostitution? Are they emigres from Venezuela? GatoGordo Nov 2017 #2
Subject: "Medellin becoming major destination for foreign predators." Judi Lynn Nov 2017 #3
The backstory isn't important? Why the uptick in children being sold into sexual slavery? GatoGordo Nov 2017 #4
 

GatoGordo

(2,412 posts)
2. A significant increase in child prostitution? Are they emigres from Venezuela?
Tue Nov 14, 2017, 08:29 PM
Nov 2017
'We’re living in the end of times': Starving Venezuelans giving away children to survive

Peter Walker @petejohn_walker

-snip-

Pictures of families queuing for rations have dominated its newspaper front pages.

Children have proved some of the hardest hit however, with many reportedly turning to begging and prostitution, according to welfare workers.

Abortion is illegal in Venezuela and contraception, including condoms, are hard to find.

The Independent approached the Venezuelan Embassy in London for comment but they did not respond.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/starving-venezuelans-giving-away-children-survive-economic-crisis-a7479756.html


In Venezuela, they were teachers and doctors. To buy food, they became prostitutes.
BY JIM WYSS
[email protected]

ARAUCA, COLOMBIA
At a squat, concrete brothel on the muddy banks of the Arauca River, Gabriel Sánchez rattled off the previous jobs of the women who now sell their bodies at his establishment for $25 an hour.

“We’ve got lots of teachers, some doctors, many professional women and one petroleum engineer,” he yelled over the din of vallenato music. “All of them showed up with their degrees in hand.”

And all of them came from Venezuela.

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http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/venezuela/article174808061.html

Judi Lynn

(160,515 posts)
3. Subject: "Medellin becoming major destination for foreign predators."
Wed Nov 15, 2017, 12:33 AM
Nov 2017

Start your own thread for your subject matter.

 

GatoGordo

(2,412 posts)
4. The backstory isn't important? Why the uptick in children being sold into sexual slavery?
Wed Nov 15, 2017, 10:58 AM
Nov 2017

Why aren't you outraged?

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