Tag: sexual exploitation

This Tuesday, begins the trial against Liliana del Carmen Campos Puello, ‘La Madame’, investigated by the Attorney General’s Office for concerted crimes to commit crimes, trafficking in persons and inducing prostitution begins. Liliana del Carmen Campos – ‘La Madame’ – is designated as the head...

The Fiscalía Adjunta de Asuntos de Género (Deputy Prosecutor for Gender Affairs) accused the mother of a girl who was sexually exploited by a two brothers in Desamparados. According to the authorities, she knew about the attacks and still allowed them to continue for 5...

Legislators of the Comisión de Seguridad y Narcotráfico (Security and Drug Trafficking Commission) approved a text that would allow the State to confiscate assets acquired through crime. According to Gustavo Viales, chairman of the commission, the text has the endorsement of the Instituto Costarricense sobre...

A Costa Rican woman identified by her last names Trinidad Valdez was arrested suspected of illegally bringing to Costa Rica young Dominican women, who were apparently victims of sexual exploitation in a bar in Esparza, Puntarenas. Immigration Police reported that the arrest took place Friday...

The sexual exploitation of persons for commercial purposes is increasing and is the most common way in which the crime of trafficking in persons manifests itself in Costa Rica. Between 2010 and 2018 there were 211 cases, that is, more than 26 per year or...

So far this year, authorities have managed to rescue 10 women victims of human trafficking. That is, women who were contacted through deception of better opportunities for employment, study or salary, but end up being sexually exploited. The statistics of the Nacional de la Mujer...

The Fiscalia (Prosecutor's Office) in Corredores and the Office of Trafficking in Persons and the Illicit Trafficking of Migrants are asking for jail time for two women in the southern zone, for the trafficking of persons for the purpose of sexual exploitation. The women, who...

Four adolescents between the ages of 16 and 17 were arrested as suspected of trafficking in persons for the purpose of sexual exploitation (pimping) of two schoolgirls. The arrest was made this Wednesday morning in the house where the young girls lived, in Hatillo, San...

QCOSTARICA - An official of the Judicial Inspection office of the Supreme Court (Inspección Judicial de la Corte Suprema de Justicia), who is also the son of Justice Jesus Ramirez, faces an investigation for using an official government vehicle to visit a brothel. During a...

QCOSTARICA - In the first two months of the year, 14 minors have been victims of alleged sexual exploitation, an adult offering money in exchange for sexual favors. That is the figure reported by the Children's Welfare Agency, th Patronato Nacional de la Infancia (PANI). Of...