They investigate a possible case of Human Trafficking in Catamarca

A 19-year-old girl, a native of the town of San José, Santa María department , was found in Buenos Aires and taken into custody by the Trafficking and Exploitation of Persons Prosecutor's Office (Protex) at noon on Tuesday. So far, the fact is being investigated as a possible case of human trafficking, due to the details of the case. The man who contacted her is 33 years old and is of Paraguayan origin.

The proceedings began on Monday afternoon, when the young woman's mother filed the complaint at the police station in her town. As they confirmed to Catamarca/12 from the Provincial Police , it was her mother who reported her suspicions around 4:30 p.m. on the aforementioned day and they immediately began to mobilize.

The story begins at 8 in the morning. At that time, the young woman would have told her mother that she would go see her uncle, who maintains a sales stand in the local square. Seeing that the hours passed and her daughter did not appear, the woman went to look for her and understood that she had never had that encounter. At that time, she returned to her house and began looking for “clues” as to where her daughter could be, and she noticed that a bag and clothes were missing.

This is why she decided to report what happened to the police and later call line 145 to activate the case as possible human trafficking. The investigation determined that the young woman had traveled to Tucumán and there she waited until 5:30 p.m. to board a group of those hired to do shopping tours in Buenos Aires. The ticket had been paid online by a 33-year-old man of Paraguayan origin.

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Upon learning of these details, an operation was unleashed from Protex with the intervention of the Federal Police and the Gendarmerie . They waited for the bus to reach its destination, the terminal in the Buenos Aires town of Morón. When she got off the bus, the investigators waited for her to meet the suspect, who had communicated with her through social networks, and after detaining him in investigation of the fact, they protected the possible victim.

At the close of this edition, it was learned that the young woman was being contained and her testimony was being taken in Buenos Aires to find out more details of what happened and determine if there was a crime in the case.

From the force, they highlighted the speed with which they acted after the complaint and the importance of the immediate knowledge, since otherwise it would not have been easy to know the whereabouts of the young woman.