Santo Domingo.- The Judicial Office of Permanent Attention Services of Pedernales imposed three months of preventive prison to a woman and two men who were dedicated to the commercial sexual exploitation of women and adolescents.
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The accused used a house in the Los Guayacanes sector of Pedernales to commit the acts, where three victims aged 12 and 14, as well as an 18-year-old, were also rescued. A statement from the Public Ministry indicated that the Specialized Prosecutor’s Office against the Illicit Trafficking of Migrants and Trafficking in Persons (PETT) and the Prosecutor’s Office of Pedernales initiated a criminal investigation jointly with the Directorate of Investigations against Trafficking and Trafficking in Persons of the National Police after receiving the complaint of the case last June. The prosecuting body indicated that the accused sometimes resorted to deception, taking advantage in any case of the victims’ conditions of vulnerability and the state of minority, determined by their age, all this for the purpose of obtaining an economic benefit.
