Indiana State Police say they have rescued the woman. prostitution activity They believe it may have been run by members of a brutal gang from Venezuela out of a home in Indianapolis.
The Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department said they were called to a home on Eagledale Drive on Tuesday after a teenage girl told a neighbor that she and three other women were being trafficked for sex. .
They interviewed a woman who said she was brought to Indianapolis from Boston, Massachusetts, to raise money to bring her family to the United States. In exchange, she was forced to have sex with a man she called “the boss.” She was then forced into prostitution.
The man who allegedly ran the house and collected money from prostitution was identified as 29-year-old Alejandro Santiago. Police arrested Santiago and charged him with three counts of promoting prostitution.
Police have not been able to identify the man known as “The Boss,” but they suspect the prostitution facility is run by a violent Venezuelan gang called El Torren de Aragua. Stated.
El Tren de Aragua was founded in 2012 inside a Venezuelan prison. The gang spread from Venezuela to other countries in Latin America, including Chile, Colombia, and Peru.
The gang is reportedly behind a spate of smartphone robberies in New York City, some of them violent. Officials said the two immigrants seen on video brutally attacking a New York City police officer in January were members of a transnational criminal organization.
Mary Nolen, associate director of Hope Center Indy, which helps victims of human trafficking, told WTHR-TV that people should take online classes to identify the signs of human trafficking. .
“Typically, a lot of human trafficking in the United States is relational. Probably at least 90 percent are trafficked by someone they know, which could be their boyfriend or their own family,” she says.
“It can be difficult for us, or anyone who isn’t involved in the issue of sex trafficking, to know what to do. But usually we say, if you see something, say something, We’re saying there’s a hotline if you do that,” Nolen added. You can call. “
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