Tell Argentina to Work Harder to Find Marita and End Sex Slavery
Target: Argentina Judicial System- Sponsored by: Susan V
Over a decade ago, Susana Trimarco’s daughter, Marita Veron, left for a doctor’s appointment in Tucuman, Argentina and never returned. Susana believes that Marita, 23, was kidnapped and forced into sex slavery.
In her search for Marita, USA Today says Trimarco courageously went undercover and exposed a ring of organized crime.
Her campaign led to tougher sentences for sex traffickers and to the liberation of hundreds of women. For her work, she’s received several honors, including a Nobel Prize nomination. And yet the whereabouts of her own daughter, as well as thousands of other Argentinians, remain uncertain.
Trimarco had high hopes for convictions and more information from a trial of 13 she believes were involved in her daughter’s kidnapping. But all were acquitted!
This inaction is unacceptable. Tell the Argentinian government to do more to find Marita and to stamp out the sex slavery epidemic plaguing the country.
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The following is part of the USA Today story:
Argentine mom rescues hundreds of sex slaves
Susana Trimarco was a housewife who fussed over her family and paid scant attention to the news until her daughter left for a doctor’s appointment and never came back.
After getting little help from police, Trimarco launched her own investigation into a tip that the 23-year-old was abducted and forced into sex slavery. Soon, Trimarco was visiting brothels seeking clues about her daughter and the search took an additional goal: rescuing sex slaves and helping them start new lives.
What began as a one-woman campaign a decade ago developed into a movement and Trimarco today is a hero to hundreds of women she’s rescued from Argentine prostitution rings. She’s been honored with the “Women of Courage” award by the U.S. State Department and was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize on Nov. 28. Sunday night, President Cristina Fernandez gave her a human rights award before hundreds of thousands of people in the Plaza de Mayo.
But years of exploring the decadent criminal underground haven’t led Trimarco to her daughter, Maria de los Angeles “Marita” Veron, who was 23 in 2002 when she disappeared from their hometown in provincial Tucuman, leaving behind her own 3-year-old daughter Micaela.
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http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2012/12/10/argentina-sex-slaves/1759791/
