14 Israelis suspected of running child sex trafficking ring in Colombia

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14 Israelis suspected of running child sex trafficking ring in Colombia

Network allegedly marketed trips from Israel for tourists to have sex with minors who were forced into prostitution; 6 Israelis held, arrest warrants issued for other suspects …

Fourteen Israelis are suspected by Colombian authorities of running a child sex trafficking ring which marketed tour packages from Israel to the Latin American country …

Eight suspects are in custody … with international arrest warrants issued for the remaining individuals. … one of the Israelis is also being held on suspicion of murder and others are also suspected of money laundering. …

Colombian authorities said Israeli tourists would stay at hotels and take yacht trips and go to drug and alcohol-fueled private parties where women and minors were offered as “sex slaves.” …

All of the suspects were wanted by international police agency Interpol on suspicion of pimping and soliciting minors for prostitution. …

Members of the network established tourism sites and hotels throughout the country, giving the operation an outward veneer of respectability. However, at the same time, they targeted boys and girls who came from troubled homes or had a background of financial difficulties, and forced them into sex work. Proceeds from the trafficking ring were then reinvested into property and companies. …

Ben-Mosh and his partners were suspected of drug-dealing, forcing minors into prostitution, and tax evasion, Hebrew media reported …

Police in Colombia arrested 18 people in a raid on Hotel Benjamin hostel in Cartagena in July. The suspects are accused of running a sex ring, recruiting young girls from Colombia and Venezuela and forcing them to work as sex slaves. Reuters reported that more than 250 girls between 14- and 17-years-old were forced to have sex with locals and tourists.

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Four members of an extremist Jewish sect based in Guatemala have been arrested in New York on charges of kidnapping two children, federal prosecutors have said.According to a statement issued Friday by the US Attorney's Office from the Southern District of New York, the four men are members of Lev Ahor, which practices a form of ultra-Orthodox Judaism with teachings that include veiling women from head to toe in black tunics.
One of the men, Aron Rosner, 45, who lives in Brooklyn, was arrested on December 23.
The other three -- Nachman Helbrans, 36, alleged to be the leader of the sect, and Mayer Rosner and Jacob Rosner, aged 42 and 20 respectively, all living in Guatemala -- were deported on Thursday from Mexico, where they had taken the children, and arrested on their arrival in New York the same day.
They stand accused of organizing the kidnapping on December 8 of a 14-year-old girl and her brother, 12, in the village of Woodridge, about 150 kilometers (90 miles) north of New York.


The four suspects devised a plan to kidnap the victims to take them back to Guatemala via Mexico and flew the children out from a small airport outside Scranton, Pennsylvania.
The children were recovered on Friday with the assistance of Mexican authorities in the town of Tenango del Air before being brought back to their mother.
Each of the suspects are charged with one count of kidnapping, which carries a maximum sentence of life in prison.

More at: https://news.yahoo.com/us-arrests-jewish-sect-members-kidnapping-children-065513520.html
 
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