Sex Trafficking in Guayaquil (2024)

A sex trafficking case from 2024 in Guayaquil, Ecuador. 1 source on file.

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What happened

Three women were rescued from an alleged sex-trafficking network operating in Machala. Investigators said the organization targeted women in vulnerable economic circumstances with offers to improve their living conditions and subsequently transported them to clandestine commercial-sex establishments, where they were controlled and sexually exploited. Accused: Colombian-Ecuadorian trafficking network.

Response and intervention

Ecuadorian judicial police. Network leaders arrested in bi-national operation. Corporacion Humanas Ecuador.

Sources

El Telegrafo (opens in a new tab)

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