📋 Tender Overview
Following a request from the Superior Prosecutors Office Specialized in Human Trafficking Crimes of Lima.The Superior Prosecutors Office Specialized in Human Trafficking Crimes of Lima managed to confirm the resolution that declares the request for extension of preventive detention founded, against the accused P.M.A and E.A.L.R, for the crime of favoring prostitution to the detriment of 12 women, imposing an additional nine months of preventive detention.
In the same way, the extension of preventive detention was obtained against D.V.P.B, for the crime of human trafficking for the purposes of sexual exploitation to the detriment of three women.
According to the tax investigation, P.M.A was in charge of the administration of the rooms at the Garotas premises, located in the district of Lurigancho - Chosica, where the victims provided sexual services; E.A.L.R was responsible for the control and security of the aforementioned premises; while the investigated D.V.P.B is accused of taking advantage of the vulnerable situation of the victims, providing them with accommodation for the purpose of subjecting them to sexual exploitation. All of them were arrested in flagrante delicto on May 15, 2023.
During the hearing, senior deputy prosecutor Elvis Crisostomo Vasquez argued that the existence of difficulty in the investigation had been adequately justified since various procedures were pending, such as the unique Gesell camera interview of an aggrieved woman; acts requiring international judicial cooperation through REDTRAM; unsealing, visualization and extraction of information from 12 samples, among others.
In this way, the Public Ministry renews its commitment to investigate and combat human trafficking and related crimes in order to safeguard the dignity of each human being.