On Wednesday, the Department of Justice unsealed a four-count indictment against eight Venezuelans alleging their “respective roles in a transnational commercial sex enterprise,” according to a press release.
The defendants’ ages ranged from 24 to 51 years old and operated the enterprise out of a Nashville motel from July 2022 through March 2024. The defendants would facilitate the trafficking of the victims to the United States and then advertise their services on commercial sex websites.
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigations added a ninth defendant, a woman, who is “alleged to have directly facilitated the exploitation of the scheme’s victims,” according to a TBI press release.
The women were allegedly lured to travel to the United States with the promise of a better life but then required to perform sex work to pay off exceptionally high debts.
“We are coming after transnational criminal organizations like TdA, but this case shows that we will also do whatever it takes to stop those who would traffick women and girls no matter who is behind their suffering,” said Acting U.S. Attorney Robert E. McGuire for the Middle District of Tennessee. […]
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