{"id":512165,"date":"2026-06-23T18:31:39","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T22:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/man-sentenced-to-15-years-for-human-trafficking-and-sexual-abuse-against-five-women-in-barahona\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T18:31:39","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T22:31:39","slug":"man-sentenced-to-15-years-for-human-trafficking-and-sexual-abuse-against-five-women-in-barahona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/uncategorized\/man-sentenced-to-15-years-for-human-trafficking-and-sexual-abuse-against-five-women-in-barahona\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Man sentenced to 15 years for human trafficking and sexual abuse against five women in Barahona&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"&#8220;n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Court of Appeal of Barahona imposed a 15-year prison sentence on Juan Carlos Pe\u00f1a Nin, also known as \u201cMoreno\u201d or \u201cGreydel Nin Matos\u201d, upon confirming his <a href=\"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/nacionales\/imponen-pago-de-rd60000-a-hombre-que-mutilo-perro-en-la-vega\/\">responsibility<\/a> in crimes of human trafficking in the form of slavery and sexual abuse against five women.<\/p>n&#8221;\n\n&#8220;n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The court upheld an appeal filed by the Public Prosecutor&#8217;s Office, after determining that the initial sanction did not meet the minimum ranges established in Law 137-03 on Illicit Trafficking of Migrants and Trafficking in Persons, which led to the increase of the sentence.<\/p>n&#8221;\n\n&#8220;n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In addition to the prison sentence, the judges ratified a fine equivalent to 175 public sector minimum wages and the payment of RD$250,000 in compensation to each of the victims who acted as a civil party in the proceedings.<\/p>n&#8221;\n\n&#8220;n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the indictment, the defendant contacted young women in situations of economic vulnerability through social networks such as WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook, where he promised them well-paid jobs. Subsequently, he transported them to different areas of the Barahona and Independencia provinces.<\/p>n&#8221;\n\n&#8220;n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>We recommend reading:<a href=\"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/internacionales\/condenan-a-mas-de-350\/\">Man who defrauded more than 700 people in El Salvador sentenced to more than 350 years in prison<\/a><\/strong><\/p>n&#8221;\n\n&#8220;n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The judicial file details that, once in those places, the victims were stripped of their belongings and subjected to repeated sexual violence, in addition to threats, physical assaults, and other forms of coercion.<\/p>n&#8221;\n\n&#8220;n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Court of Appeal of Barahona considered the gravity of the facts, the number of victims affected, and the level of damage caused as determining factors to increase the sentence, while rejecting the defense&#8217;s arguments by deeming that the evidence presented was sufficient to establish the criminal liability of the accused.<\/p>n&#8221;","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;n The Court of Appeal of Barahona imposed a 15-year prison sentence on Juan Carlos Pe\u00f1a Nin, also known as \u201cMoreno\u201d or \u201cGreydel Nin Matos\u201d, upon confirming his responsibility in crimes of human trafficking in the form of slavery and sexual abuse against five women. n&#8221; &#8220;n The court upheld an appeal filed by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-512165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-29eJ","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","dum_api":{"author_name":"Yerandi Santana","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/cropped-WhatsApp-Image-2026-02-13-at-5.35.07-PM-96x96.jpeg","categories_name":["Uncategorized"],"featured_media_url":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/133556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=512165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}