Ringleader 'Madame' Campos Puello is said to have hired the girls from poor neighbourhoods in Columbia and Venezuela before forcing them into prostitution
Cops arrested 18 people after dozens of underage girls were recruited for sex parties under the pretence of getting modelling work in the Colombian resort of Cartagena.
Of those seized "Madame" Liliana del Carmen Campos Puello and several unnamed Israelis were believed to be the network's ringleaders.
They allegedly raped and tattooed all their underage victims, aged between 14 and 17.
Campos Puello was said to be responsible for recruiting the girls from poor neighbourhoods in Columbia and Venezuela.
She allegedly helped them with passports and sent them money for expenses to travel to Cartagena.
Puellos was one of 18 people nabbed by police in Colombia.
Campos Puellos is alleged to have hired the girls and forced them into prostitution.
But when the girls arrived, they were reportedly stripped of their documents and possessions and forced into prostitution.
The girls were allegedly showcased in catalogues and forced to attend parties on luxury yachts and in hotels.
Campos Puello would allegedly select the best-suited girls from their list before each event.
At least 250 minors were lured to Cartagena in one year, in what is being called the city's biggest sexual exploitation case, according to reports.
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P.s., It won't allow me to post the angry red face emoji, nor the thumb down.
Why?
RC
...maybe a button malfunction on your end?
But Now Get Ready for the
Grammer(sic) , 'Grammar GestaPoPo'!You meant "Jackson's!" SOTTites, I forgot where I did this skit earlier. I thingk (as Tony would say) that The Closing Scene of SOTTite's reactions to the Great RC Finale elsewhere posted, would fit well here but I don't have the link. Anyone?
R.C.
P.s., Having fun and jesting throughout as I well know that SorryGerry at least should realize*** that just because his computer could post those emojis in a comment at that moment (on mine, they would show up in place for 1 second and then disappear) has little or nothing to do with that meanie's ability on HIS computer in a SUB comment! (But with that image, I just don't see SorryGerry showing any signs of an IQ over Room temperature - in Celsius !)
*** But that may be overstretching the case.
Just Jesting.R.C.
Let's see, where do i begin, a lot to digest here..newsflash, nobody likes self- appointed grammar police, especially when it's regarding a typo. You obviously have thin skin, as i was merely joking with you about emojis that obviously on your end would not cooperate. And who's old? You talk of Nam, you constantly telegraph that you have attorney skills, now if that's true, it's anyone's guess. But i would assume an attorney who's still active wouldn't have the time in the day to be on here 24/7...
And if you were any kind of previously mentioned occupation, you would have the investigative skills to discover that "Strategery" is a late night SNL play on the word "Strategy" by actor/comedian Will Ferrell in a skit where he satirically portrays George Bush, and his penchant for misspelling, outright making up catchphrases. (They didn't have SNL back in your day?) You wanna throw insults? You come off as a self-important douchebag who spews out sometimes nonsensical word salads to try, and convince everyone of just how smart you are.
...Is this really all about me having a good back, and forth with that wonderful person named LindaMay?? You know, it really isn't healthy for you to become amorous with internet personas. My suggestion to you would be to meet someone in the real world to get all fuzzy about. And just because you say I'm dumb, doesn't make it so.
... Jean-Luc Picard...is that you!?!?
Just Jesting.
I wanted to get along with everyone on here, work as a community. But "Good Optics" pointed out to me that I'm just as worthy as anyone else on here, and that i sell myself short. But I'm not one to have a
megalomaniac personality, often poking fun at myself, seeing the humor in our human, imperfect existence. Comtemplating letting you have your play area. You might need this more than me. For all i know, you could be a wounded vet, if so, i apologize in advance, & appreciate your service.
small footnote however... It's been my experience that the Nam vets that seen the real action rarely speak of it, and the ones there in clean up are the most boastful. (my mom's boyfriend was the latter, as in, "I Fought For You In Vietnam! Bow Down To My Authority!")
I should have written "sarcasm' and or "being facetious" throughout. It was NOT intended to upset or 'scuff' (local term meaning denigrate, or, more modernly, 'diss') you. I apologize and hope you accept it.
I honestly meant it in a different fashion than you took it. I loved the point when you brought out the PoPo charge - back in the not too long ago - and literally still get a smile about it for I know I've made countless grammar errors myself here.
No, I'm not a Nam vet - too young; but my best friend did three tours - though that doesn't count for me. I do know a lot about guitars, guns, cars, and other stuff that in the times and places of my youth were quite reasonably expected of males.
I too super respect the military as my father skipped a pro baseball career to join the USAF for Korea which brought us through sundry USAFB's in California, and ultimately here by 1964. HIS father was in the USMC in WWI and all the BS in Central America. (See Gen.S. Butler's 'War is a Racket.' (He was 36 when he married my Grandma who was 18? in SC.)
Again, apologies.
R.C.
It's all good! Hope i didn't offend. If it's any consolation, I'm a big fan of StarTrek next generation.
Wow, i just re-read your post, and i do see you were just joking back with me, and there i was thinking i set you off!
...Now i suddenly feel like Jeff Daniels in the movie "Dumb and Dumber" where that girl he was talking to in Aspen, Co out in the snow lightly shoves him in the chest playfully, and he thinks she's wanting to fight for real so he shoves her back into the snow and throws his fists up! Then realizes it was in jest.
🎼The rain in Spain falls mainly in the plain!
...By George, i think I've got it!
I've been trying to find this link. What I've just found is what I've hoped for. My Tony Montana joke was the idea that "Ok, you wanna play rough?" And despite having a grenade launcher, he says: "You're a big ol' meanie! Whaa..."
Somehow I just can't picture Tony being a wimp. But I have often pointed out on here how we should label 'sarcasm, facetiousness and sardonicism' as such, and a million problems thereby would be avoided, and yet, I really didn't do that.
So, no worries, mate; Cool with you? Cool with me.
I forget where, but one thing you said really did bother me; which was some implication somewhere that I behave like a 'lark' which I do not. I put myself through school by working; and despite whatever degrees I have, I've never been 'hoighty toighty (sp?) about it and I cannot STAND intellectual snobs. (When I went away to college, I saw how the rich half lives. Daddy buys new cars for 'em and they couldn't change a flat if their life depended on it. I named them "LARKs". I.e., "Little Asshole Rich Kids.")
I grew up in a small town, and am fortunate that it's a place folks don't leave much. Of all my closest friends - a group of about 10-12 folks, . . only one? two? have college degrees. Most have their own businesses and High School Diplomas or GED's. And yeah, they're smart as whips; and they don't need a degree for one to know its true. I'm a good soul, and proud of that fact.
I grant I write too much. I may be 'smart' (runs in the family), I've written for a living my whole self sustaining life, and I type very fast. For example, if you take a piece of whatever I've written and read it out loud and it takes about one minute, then it usually would have taken me no more than three minutes to knock it out - six max if it involved editing.
Nice to have this behind us.
R.C.