Overview
- Federal Judge Julio Leonardo Bavio granted preventive detention for seven of the eight charged, in a case prosecutors call of unprecedented gravity for the number of victims.
- The ruling follows audios in which the alleged organizer, a remisero, offers minors—“I have a 16-year-old”—and coordinates paid assaults with adult clients.
- Investigators seized phones, storage devices, drugs, sexual stimulants, sex toys, documents and audiovisual material, and are conducting device forensics while tracing transfers after lifting bank secrecy.
- The network allegedly transported students aged 12 to 17 in a white Volkswagen Voyage to motels on National Route 26, with forensic reports confirming severe physical and psychological harm.
- Nine people are implicated and eight formally charged, including two businessmen and a military member, while one suspect is under house arrest, another remains free, and a 16-year-old detained earlier was released.