{"id":43914,"date":"2025-03-26T08:20:48","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T13:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/?p=43914"},"modified":"2025-03-26T10:51:30","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T15:51:30","slug":"a-foreign-female-citizen-charged-with-deceiving-women-convincing-them-to-travel-to-colombia-and-forcing-them-to-engage-in-sexual-activities-and-begging-was-prosecuted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/2025\/03\/26\/a-foreign-female-citizen-charged-with-deceiving-women-convincing-them-to-travel-to-colombia-and-forcing-them-to-engage-in-sexual-activities-and-begging-was-prosecuted\/","title":{"rendered":"A foreign female citizen charged with deceiving women, convincing them to travel to Colombia, and forcing them to engage in sexual activities and begging was prosecuted\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

The victims arrived in Medell\u00edn with the intention of working in a candy shop; however, they were hold hostages in a building.<\/em><\/strong><\/h4>\n

The evidence revealed that Mar\u00eda Alejandra Brancho Sulbar\u00e1n, a female citizen from Venezuela allegedly deceived young women from her country, persuaded them to travel to Colombia with false job offers, and forced them to engage in sexual activities or begging in Medell\u00edn (Antioquia).<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

A prosecutor appointed to the Center for Integral Attention to Victims of Sexual Violence (Centro de Atenci\u00f3n Integral a V\u00edctimas de A<\/span>gresi\u00f3n Sexual (Caivas) in Spanish<\/span><\/i>) charged the woman with human trafficking for the purpose of begging and sexual exploitation. She pleaded guilty to the charges.<\/strong> For his part, a judge imposed a prison sentence.<\/span><\/p>\n

One of the crimes occurred between March and April 2022. The defendant contacted a young woman on social media and persuaded her to travel to Colombia to allegedly work in a candy store.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The victim and her sentimental partner traveled to Medell\u00edn. However, as soon as they arrived, they were locked in a building in the Robledo Aures neighborhood and, amid threats, they were forced to beg.<\/strong> One of them was forced to engage in sexual activities in municipalities of the so-called Oriente Antioque\u00f1o.<\/span><\/p>\n

After two weeks of submission, both women escaped and denounced their alleged attacker, a 40-year-old woman.<\/span><\/p>\n

The information contained in this press release corresponds to the narration of the objective news provided by the officials in charge of carrying out criminal investigations within the Office of the Attorney General. By the time this communication is disclosed, the legal status of the people mentioned is still pending to be resolved by the competent judicial authority, always under the presumption of innocence contemplated by Article 29 of the Political Constitution and Article 7 of Law 906 of 2004.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The victims arrived in Medell\u00edn with the intention of working in a candy shop; however, they were hold hostages in a building. The evidence revealed that Mar\u00eda Alejandra Brancho Sulbar\u00e1n, a female citizen from Venezuela allegedly deceived young women from her country, persuaded them to travel to Colombia with false job offers, and forced them […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-43914","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43914"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43914"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43915,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43914\/revisions\/43915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiscalia.gov.co\/colombia\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}