BFF-06 100 women freed from sex traffickers in Mexico

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100 women freed from sex traffickers in Mexico

MEXICO CITY, Aug 18, 2018 (BSS/AFP) – Some 100 women from across Latin
America and eastern Europe were freed from sex traffickers Friday by Mexican
police, who arrested 18 men on human trafficking charges, authorities said.

The women were found in a dawn raid on a brothel in central Mexico City, a
statement from the capital’s security ministry said.

The group included women from Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Colombia,
Paraguay and Venezuela, in Latin America, and from Hungary, Ukraine and
Russia, in eastern Europe.

Mexican authorities have broken up numerous sex trafficking rings in
recent months. The women are generally promised jobs such as modeling, then
kidnapped and forced into prostitution.

There have been several recent cases of such women, especially
Venezuelans, being murdered in Mexico.

BSS/AFP/FI/ 0815 hrs