July 30 is the World Day Against Trafficking in Persons, a day not to forget that more than 40 million women and girls are victims of trafficking for sexual exploitation in the world throughout the year.
From the recruitment
in situ
and in person, or through intermediaries that operate in the countries of origin of these women and girls victims of sex trafficking, criminals can now recruit without leaving the dining room of their home, through communications telephones, instant messaging applications, advertisements on the web and social networks with the advent of information and communication technologies (ICT).
Today, both the Internet and a simple mobile phone offer multiple possibilities to reach thousands of possible victims and capture them, through deception, from anonymity or by easily impersonating another person, of another age, another race or another sex.
This frenzied and unstoppable technological revolution has caused the territory of hunting human beings for their exploitation to also move from the “real” world to the digital world.
A pimp 2.0 can be capturing and exploiting hundreds of women at the same time from the sofa at home.
And the digital control that a criminal can exercise over his victims and their families is much more dangerous and damaging than it was years ago.
Ana
Ana is a young girl who was captured through a video game by the famous
lover boy
method
, of which the Romanian gangsters are experts, and which consists of making the unsuspecting fall in love.
Thus, Ana was about to disappear and travel abroad where a supposed "boyfriend" was waiting for her, whom she knew only through this video game and with whom she was madly in love.
His trip to Abu Dhabi was cut short by chance.
Fortunately, fate and chance came together on this occasion so that her mother realized what was happening and could make her daughter see reason.
As in the case of Ana, many young women are captured not only through common social networks (Facebook or Instagram), but also, and very few parents know this, through online video games that, apparently, They are harmless.
Sexting
Young girls are exposed to recruitment through their social networks, in many cases open, and no one has warned them of the dangers that this entails. We see that it is the young women themselves who voluntarily send, through their
smartphone
or computers, sexual content, photos and videos that, once shared on the network, no longer belong to you. It is precisely through this sexual content that they can later suffer sextortion, an increasingly frequent crime that consists of blackmail under the threat of uploading to the web or sending those images of the victim to mobile terminals.
If young women in general are succulent pieces to be captured by cybercriminals, they always look, in the face of capture and subsequent exploitation, the most vulnerable.
In this sense, minors and women with intellectual disabilities are, without a doubt, the easiest pieces in the face of both “traditional” sexual exploitation and for
webcamming
, pornography or prostitution 2.0 and
sexting
.
These vulnerable women and girls need ICTs, even more than others their age, to socialize and make friends.
They need more affection and affection, also due to the lack of protection in their family environment, their infantilization, abandonment, precariousness, poverty and lack of training.
Criminals take advantage of all this.
Intellectual disability is not obvious at first, but these women and girls are easier to manipulate and human traffickers do not even need to force a violent situation, but it will be enough to convince them with a little "affection" and lip service. that it is any "job", that is what "normal" girls do.
In addition, they are more docile and therefore more appreciated by those seeking paid sex who seek to exercise their share of power.
Sunrise
She is the mother of Amanda, a minor with an intellectual disability, in need of special protection, who suffered in her flesh how her daughter disappeared one fine day without leaving a trace.
Amanda was caught on the Internet by a man who, posing as a young woman, offered her a job in the hospitality industry.
He tricked this teenager and sexually exploited her until the police rescued her.
Amanda suffered mental, physical and sexual violence.
This criminal had perfected his technique and, with the help of technology, had managed to capture and exploit dozens of women, several of them minors, in addition to stealing their data and with them committing another series of economic crimes.
Pimps are getting more sophisticated, leaving behind images of open shirts showing thick gold chains. Now they have evolved and new generations are coming to fill their positions. They have technology, social networks, blogs, instant messaging applications and even
deepfakes
(apparently real fake videos) at their disposal and make use of all this, which, added to the inappropriate and uncontrolled use of the network, favors them to massively capture and subdue their victims.
