Colombia’s neo-paramilitary groups ‘kidnapping girls to use as sex slaves': Ombudsman
May 4, 2015
Colombia’s neo-paramilitary groups ‘kidnapping girls to use as sex slaves': Ombudsman
posted by Adriaan Alsema
After Marxist rebel group FARC vowed to ban the recruitment of minors, Colombia’s authorities are looking into neo-paramilitary groups that are accused of kidnapping girls to submit them as sex slaves.
In an interview with Caracol Radio, a top Ombudsman official claimed that groups that formed from the now-defunct paramilitary organization AUC are kidnapping girls under 14 to force them to have sex with members of the neo-paramilitary groups, called BaCrim by the government.
“Girls aged 10, 11 or 12 are being kidnapped and forced to have sex” with members of neo-paramilitary groups like the Urabeños, said Maria Cristina Hurtado, the chief of the Ombudsman’s Office’s Childhood and Youth unit.
According to the Ombudsman official, girls are additionally drugged with the intention of converting them into drug addict, making them dependent of the drug trafficking organization. Some of the girls have caught sexually transmitted diseases because of unsafe sex with members of the neo-paramilitary groups.
More:
http://colombiareports.co/colombias-neo-paramilitary-groups-kidnapping-girls-to-use-as-sex-slaves-ombudsman/