He coerced the victims in order to trade with their sexual services, using threats against them and their faimilies, physical and psichological violence, and by taking advantage of their particular position of vulnerability.
They also received help from a customer who went to pick them up at a nearby corner. Soon after she was taken back to the brothel, M. En el lapso comprendido entre los meses de setiembre de 2. An important fact is that one of the minors was held captive in that brothel in two separate occasions, since after she first managed to escape, she was captured again and beaten to force her to engage in prostitution. It is interesting, in this decision, to look at the relevance given to the testimony of the victims.
Especially if we take into account that the Court accepted as a fact that one of the victims according to her own testimony had already been restrained at that same location twice. The defence requested a psychological evaluation of the minors, since they had only been evaluated in a Gesell dome.
Consequently, the Court considered the testimony given through the mechanism established in art. The victims testified at the trial through audiovisual means the defendants decided not to be present during that moment.
The testimony of the National Gendarmerie personnel security forces was also taken into account, as well as that of the professionals at the Centre for Victim Assistance, of the officers who took part in the search, of professionals from the National Rescue Programme, and of relatives of the children, especially that of the mother who first filed the complaint.
