{"id":486608,"date":"2025-10-13T19:08:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T23:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/man-sentenced-to-20-years-for-sexual-exploitation-of-minors-in-santiago\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T19:08:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T23:08:18","slug":"man-sentenced-to-20-years-for-sexual-exploitation-of-minors-in-santiago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/dominican-news\/man-sentenced-to-20-years-for-sexual-exploitation-of-minors-in-santiago\/","title":{"rendered":"Man sentenced to 20 years for sexual exploitation of minors in Santiago"},"content":{"rendered":"<strong>Santiago, R.D.<\/strong> \u2014 A Santiago court sentenced Juan Carlos Sosa Bencosme to <strong>20 years in prison<\/strong> for the crimes of sexual exploitation and human trafficking against two 14 and 15-year-old adolescents.\n\nAccording to the Santiago Prosecutor&#8217;s Office, through the Department of Trafficking in Persons and Migrant Trafficking, Sosa Bencosme headed a network that <strong>located and recruited the victims<\/strong>, inducing them to have sexual encounters with adults in exchange for money, which he collected and administered, deciding what part he gave to the minors.\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>You may be interested in:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/ab.deultimominuto.net\/entretenimiento\/fiscalia-pide-11-anos-p-diddy\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"543556\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">U.S. Attorney&#8217;s Office requests 11 years in prison for P. Diddy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nLitigating prosecutor Aida Medrano Gonell explained that the accusation, fully accepted by the court, was based on the <strong>testimonies of the teenagers<\/strong> and on evidence gathered during the investigation, which confirmed the modus operandi of the accused from his residence in Gurabo.\n\nThe <strong>Third Collegiate Court of Santiago<\/strong>, composed of judges Deyanira M\u00e9ndez, Kimberly Tatis and Ingrid Liberato, also sentenced Sosa Bencosme to pay <strong>50 minimum wages in the public sector<\/strong>.\n\nThe defendant was found guilty of violations of several articles of the <strong>Dominican Penal Code and laws on gender violence, child protection, and human trafficking<\/strong>, including article 309-1 of the Penal Code, article 410 of Law 136-03, and articles 1 and 3 of Law 137-03, which penalize sexual exploitation and violence against minors.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Santiago, R.D. \u2014 A Santiago court sentenced Juan Carlos Sosa Bencosme to 20 years in prison for the crimes of sexual exploitation and human trafficking against two 14 and 15-year-old adolescents. 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