How do prostitution networks that recruit university students work?

May 15, 2019

It has been revealed that many Colombian university students are co-opted by prostitution networks that exploit their economic problems.

In Colombia, Many students are invited to parties or trips with any payment. The only requirement is to go with "good friends". Strategies range from an invitation from a girl to an anonymous poster in the women's bathroom or to a boy who invites them. In this way,bad networks recruit young men and women to universities in this country.

One of the victims of trafficking testified. Sofia is 25 years old, she is about to finish her studies and she has been a bad worker for three years. The young woman said that it all started when one of her companions told her if she wanted to travel with her and friends in Cartagena.

Although she first stated that she "was feeling strangely", her clbadmate told her that "there was no problem, that" she said. they spent everything and that they only wanted to be accompanied, that they loved pretty women ".

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"I agreed to go to Cartagena and when I came back with an envelope with money, I realized that I was already in this world.", Said the student at BBC Mundo.

Samuel Ávila, university professor, said: "Recruit university students to work as webcam models, escorts and bad workers expanded commercial program in several cities of Colombia"

"It's a reality that there is students who use these services to finance their careers"Said the researcher.

The girls are convinced by someone they know. They listen to the money they can earn and receive invitations to travel, which at first sight seems like an "innocent plan".

What are the reasons they agree to work

Sofia stated that her financial difficulties were the main reason she had agreed to continue to operate. "I was almost in the middle of the race and my average was good.It did not come out, he did not party, he just worked and studied.But it was difficult to working to pay everything at the university, my parents helped me, but there was always more spending, "he said.

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"My friend told me:"We are companions, we are not prostitutes. They pay us to go on a trip with them, but if you do not want them to affect you, they will not do it and he said that it could help me with that. the university loan, "he is reminded.

In front of this situation, Some universities have "safety lines" so that young women can report these abuses.

In bad in Colombia is not illegal. But experts say this does not mean that universities become a home. "The boundaries between badual harbadment, bad work and badual abuse are very slim," said Ávila.

"When you enter this world, you know all those who travel and work, and there are many in the university, not only public but also private," he concluded.