Posted on 07/20/2010 7:31:34 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA
(July 19) -- Joran van der Sloot, the Dutch native charged with killing a Peruvian woman and extorting money from the mother of missing U.S. teen Natalee Holloway, may have even more legal problems ahead.
Earlier this month, the National Enquirer reported on van der Sloot's alleged involvement in sex trafficking in Thailand. Now Peru's minister of justice has confirmed that Thai authorities are pursuing criminal charges against van der Sloot, according to CBS News.
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During his own investigation in Aruba, Copus heard rumors that "girls were taken out of Aruba to be used in the sex trade," he said. "There was supposedly a guy from Chicago there, a reputed mobster, who has been quoted as saying that a good [sex slave] is worth a quarter of a million dollars."
Copus told AOL News that while there is a possibility that Holloway, if kidnapped, was sold into slavery, he doubts she would still be alive today.
"Usually they'll dope the girls up so they have no concept of what they are doing," Copus explained, adding that once the women are deemed no longer useful, they often are killed.
"There is another seedy business out there called the snuff trade, where they sell or trade recordings of actual murders," he said. "That's the final exploitation."
(Excerpt) Read more at aolnews.com ...
If they captured the president and did this to him, Americans would take them seriously!
Peru has created a reasonable facsimile of hell in their prison system. I hope van der Sloot enjoys a good long stay there.
I saw an interveiw with two of them right after she was missing. They were only there to make sure that there were no passport problems. That was it. They weren't babysitters. These kids were adults.
No they are no urban legend. They are distributed around the world in the same wasy that child porn is. It’s very underground,done peer to peer and s very real.
No they are no urban legend. They are distributed around the world in the same way that child porn is. It’s very underground,done peer to peer and s very real.
....and in the original Thailand thread, I was the second person. Damnest thing I ever saw on FR.
These kids were NOT adults. They were 18 at best. The parents of all of them were foolish to allow their children to run off to a foreign country with a couple of adults whose only responsibility was to check passports. I wonder if all the parents understood that?
Certainly when my daughters were traipsing around Europe without me in a summer school, they were with their grandmother, or they were with the parent of their roommate. And they were older — at least 21. And they were safe.
And 18 is legal age in this country and legal drinking age in Aruba. The chaperons said that the parents knew all of this when they let their kids fly down there for the vacation. I get what you are saying. I not only agree, but have raised my two kids that same way and now that they are grown, appreciate it.
My thoughts exactly when this all came out!
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