Human trafficking and forced prostitution – a form of slavery that has malingered on into the 21st Century, is a horrific fact of life in Mexico, in particular the capital Mexico City. Even more alarming is that fact that of the estimated 10,000 women bound in this evil servitude is that fact that there were only 40 investigations of the crime and three convictions in the city last year.
LOS ANGELES, CA(Catholic Online) – According to the report, the discrepancy is an “alarming figure” that shows a need to improve laws and policies. The study on human traffickingand sexual exploitation from Mexico City’s human rights commission calls the phenomenon a “new form of slavery.”
“The authorities are not investigating, nor are they asking witnesses,” Eva Reyes, investigation coordinator at the Antonio de Montesinos Center for Social and Cultural Studies says.
A major part of this epidemic is that cultural norms and social stigma prevent people from realizing that many prostitutes are victims, officials said as they presented the report last week.
“They are seen as people who are doing it freely. That is the first obstacle to justice,” Reyes said.Authorities in Mexico City have since announced that they had rescued 62 victims of a forced-prostitution ring, one of which included a 13-year-old girl.Five men and two women who police say ran the ring were arrested after an investigation that started when a minor involved reported the suspects to authorities.One victim told investigators that she was forced into prostitution in Mexico City after meeting two men in Oaxaca, a city more than 288 miles away.”After chatting with her, the victim told him that she was a domestic worker and the accused offered her a more comfortable life with well-paid work, and in a second encounter he convinced her to come live with him,” the statement said.
Such approaches are a common tactic for those involved in human trafficking, who frequently target women and girls in small rural towns outside the capital, Reyes said.The majority of women and girls inducted into prostitution wind up in Mexico City, a sprawling metropolis of more than 21 million people.”In one case, 107 trafficking victims, both Mexican and foreign citizens, were freed from a factory disguised as a drug rehabilitation center in Mexico City; many of them had been kidnapped, and all were subjected to forced labor,” according to 2010 report on human trafficking from the U.S. State Department.
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