Overview
- The operation, conducted in Castelar (Morón) and dubbed “Belén,” followed a formal probe into alleged sexual exploitation facilitated by the victims’ parents.
- Judge Carletti of Guarantees Court No. 4 authorized the mid-December search that recovered the adolescents from a severely neglected home with numerous animals.
- Investigators seized three cellphones for forensic examination to support the ongoing human trafficking inquiry.
- Prosecutors accuse the parents of delivering the minors to different men in exchange for money and drugs, and both remain in preventive detention after questioning.
- The adolescents are under the care of Morón’s child-protection agency for medical and psychological evaluations as the case proceeds.