The Criminal Guarantees judge, Ricardo Ramos, ordered preventive detention for Jorge Máximo SH and Paula Briggitte MS, a couple who allegedly tried to sell two girls in Guayaquil.
The detainees, from Santa Elena, were apprehended after a complaint from a citizen, who warned that the couple would have promoted the sale of two girls aged 4 and 2 on social networks.
The complainant contacted the cell phone number that was in the advertisement and agreed to meet at the Puerto Azul urbanization, on the road to the coast, at 12:00 on March 23.
In Guayaquil, parents are arrested for allegedly trying to sell their two daughters for $6,000 each
At the scheduled time, the couple arrived with the minors and the police arrested them there.
The Prosecutor’s Office is prosecuting the spouses for the alleged crime of human trafficking in the degree of attempt.
Prosecutor Joffre González, in the flagrante delicto hearing held at the Cuartel Modelo Judicial Unit, presented as elements of conviction the arrest report, the follow-up report and information collected on social networks (Facebook screenshots), versions of the detainees , among others.
The situation of the girls is being analyzed to establish institutional care or family reunification with a relative or close relative. (I)
Source: Eluniverso
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