Four people have been charged with trafficking a 14-year-old girl into prostitution, the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office (NYC) announced.
Three of the suspects are Hispanic – Brianna Moreno (20), Wilson Mariano Ventura (23) and Alejandrina Ventura (24) -, and the fourth was identified as Nickolous Charles (21). The four were charged with conspiring to traffic the victim and promote prostitution between November 2023 and February 2024, it was reported. The Fox News.
“As has been said, these people were targeted a 14-year-old girl who often ran away from home, abusing and taking advantage of her,” said District Attorney Alvin Bragg it is a statement. “The age of the victim is very common in human trafficking cases and illustrates why my office is fighting to eliminate the statute of limitations for sex trafficking.”
According to the case, the four suspects published prostitution ads on various defendants’ websites, with pictures of the victim naked or half-nude.
Moreno and Charles arranged sexual meetings with the victim using multiple phone numbers and They paid the Ventura suspects to rent their Harlem apartment.
All accusations are just accusations and those accused are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
In a similar case, last week an undercover operation led to the arrest of Jared Jeridore, a New York City school traffic guard, on suspicion of deceiving a person under the age of 14 to have sexual relations.
In January there was a 10-year-old girl was raped in East Harlem (Manhattan) by a man she met on a social media application, NYPD reported. In February the subject was sentenced to 15 years in prison for sexually abusing a minor relative in Long Island (NY). Also that month A grand jury indicted a Hispanic man for sexually assaulting a girl in Salem County. New Jersey, but his whereabouts remain unknown nearly three years after the first charges were filed.
In January, NYPD officer Angad Beharry and Gisianet Christina Chirinos Viloria arrested and charged on suspicion of sexually exploiting a 9-year-old girl. Also that month, a former Westchester County (NY) resident was indicted on federal charges of sexual exploitation of minors using Snapchat app.
In December there was one before an employee at a state residential facility for teenage girls on Long Island (NY) admitted to raping one of them multiple times after giving him marijuana edibles.
In another similar case, in October Four members of a Hispanic family living in Queens (NYC) were found guilty in Brooklyn of running a prostitution operation children brought from Mexico that lasted years and bribing a police officer. One of the victims is the niece of the group’s leader.
In August employee of Department of Education (DOE) from NYC was arrested and accused of abusing a fifteen-year-old girl in Queens. In September Jesús Concepción, a former music teacher at an independent high school in The Bronx (NYC), admit that it was five students sexually abused, one of whom was only 12 years old.
In April 2023 José Carabantes Pineda was sentenced 23 years in prison after pleading guilty to tying up girl and sexually assaulting him in a commercial parking lot on Long Island (NY).
In February 2022 Burma “Nancy” Rincón, a resident of Teaneck (NJ) who fled to Colombia, was arrested upon his return to the country, on suspicion of running a prostitution ring in New York and New Jersey with Latina women. In a similar case, five members of a Mexican family who ran a family sex trafficking ring from Mexico to NY and other states a long prison sentence that same month.
he is The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) has warned since 2020 of an increase in child pornography cases two more time adults and children online using social networks.
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2024-05-03 19:10:00
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