Mexican Sex Traffickers Sold Women In Bar At Three-Drink Minimum

Mexican authorities have been cutting down on sex trafficking rings in the country. Seven men have been taken into custody for allegedly prostituting women in the country at local bars. According to FOX News Latino, Mexican police officials have rescued 51 women from sex traffickers and have taken seven men into custody for the heinous crime.

The suspects allegedly hired the women as dancers, but then forced them to perform nude and engage in prostitution at two bars in Mexico City’s Cuauhtemoc borough. Patrons at La Tirada and By Latino bars were entitled to have sex with the women for a three-drink minimum. According to the statement, the fee for the sexual escapades was subject to negotiation.

Police arrested bar owner Francisco Javier Soto, Gerardo Panfilo Guerrero, Ruben Lopez, German Bolanos, Juan Carlos Rodriguez, Jose de Jesus Echeverria and Hugo Cesar Cubillos. Mexican officials received word of this sex trafficking ring from an anonymous tip. According to the capital’s district attorney, the women rescued from the traffickers are receiving psychological counseling and legal advice.

Latin America as a whole has a huge problem with sex trafficking rings. From children to adults, traffickers are forcing women into prostitution and in some cases murdering them.

According to Global Journalist, nearly 2 million children are used in the commercial sex trade. The majority of those seeking sex from exploited children in Latin America are not tourists but people in their home country. “In places with high concentrations of men like mining areas or fishing regions child sexual exploitation increases,” says Maria Eugenia Villarreal, the director of the Guatemalan office of ECPAT, an international group that works to end child sex trafficking.

Mexico is currently the fifth largest source of human trafficking in Latin America.