Medellin begins cracking down on sex tourism; 2 foreigners arrested

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Colombia Reports

Medellin begins cracking down on sex tourism; 2 foreigners arrested

written by Adriaan Alsema July 12, 2016

Years after becoming a popular destination for sex tourism, Colombia’s second largest city Medellin began cracking down on the phenomenon and arrested a foreign sex tourism provider.

According to local newspaper Vivir en Poblado, sex tourism provider Jay Harry Drivas, a.k.a. “Colombia Jake” and an alleged client were arrested Thursday last week while in the presence of a 13-year-old girl. The girl was surrendered to child welfare authorities.

The arrest took place only a few blocks from Parque Lleras in one of the apartments rented by the sex tourism provider.

The arrest of Colombia Jake is only the first arrest of a foreigner on sexual exploitation charges and was reportedly coordinated with the US embassy.

Read more: http://colombiareports.com/medellin-begins-cracking-sex-tourism/

[Skittles]

1. WHY do so many men want to fuck children

[yeoman6987]

2. Not just men

Women teachers have been seriously shacking up with their male students. It is equal opportunity nastiness.

[ToxMarz]

3. Both are equally in the law and morally repugnant and mentally abusive of the victim

but an adult male having sex with a 13 year old girl usually physically is more of an overpowering physically violent act then the high school boy banging his teacher. Then there is the fact that these perverts are traveling internationally and hooked up with someone local that is harvesting these young victims for them. Neither is okay and both equally not ok, but there are somethings that are truly more sinister.

[Aristus]

4. Whew, man! I would not want to have to do time in a Colombian prison!

Sounds like the best place for monsters like that...

[Judi Lynn]

5. Here's something you might find interesting: 100 Dismembered Bodies Found Beneath Colombian Prison

100 Dismembered Bodies Found Beneath Colombian Prison

Nash Jenkins @pnashjenkins
Feb. 19, 2016

Officials believe there are similar cases at jails elsewhere in the country



At least 100 butchered bodies have been discovered in a sewer that runs beneath a major prison in Colombia’s capital Bogotá, during an investigation into a possible epidemic of extrajudicial brutality across the country’s notoriously violent jails.

State prosecutors leading the investigation said that the victims whose dismembered remains were found under La Modelo prison were not only convicts but also visitors to the penitentiary and civilians, reports CNN. Paramilitary leaders allegedly bribed prison guards to turn a blind eye to the killings.

Authorities discovered the bodies amid an ongoing case against paramilitary figures Mario Jaimes Mejía (known as El Panadero, or the Baker) and Alejandro Cárdenas Orozco (known as JJ), who have been charged with the 2000 kidnapping, rape and torture of Colombian journalist Jineth Bedoya. Bedoya was at the time investigating violence, corruption and weapons trafficking at La Modelo, one of Colombia’s biggest prisons.

Though the prison investigation is focusing on La Modelo, officials believe that sewers under jails in other Colombian cities may also hold the remains of people who were similarly killed and dismembered, reports CNN.

For five decades, Colombia has been wrought with a civil war between state forces, paramilitary groups, and guerrilla fighters. Some 220,000 people have died in the bloody conflict; 6 million more have been displaced. In October, government and rebel leaders announced a plan to retrieve and identify the remains of the more than 50,000 individuals who have disappeared since fighting began.

http://time.com/4230222/la-modelo-sewer-bodies-colombia/

(Short article, no more at link.)

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http://colombiareports.com/inside-colombias-ten-worst-prisons/