The "doctor" of YouTube: pretending to be an independent coach to "hook" young people and prostitute them

A woman who has been promoted to YouTube as a coach of mutual aid arrested as possible perpetrator of the crime of human trafficking, after the authorities discovered that he had used his video channel to hang an 18-year-old girl who had been subjected to badual exploitation.

So it was with Vania, a young woman from Puebla who had just ended a relationship and turned to Hortensia "N" to ask her for help and emotional tips after finding a video of him on the Internet.

Hortensia "N", who identified herself as "The Doctor", took advantage of the emotional vulnerability of the young woman to earn her trust.. So much so that the fake therapist eventually moved from Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo, to Puebla.

There, he rented a house in the neighborhood of Constitución Mexicana to have a closer contact with Vania. who ended up submitting to badual exploitation in this rented property.

According to the complaint, "The Doctora" took pictures of Vania that she posted on a website. The men contacted Hortensia "N" for WhatsApp and through her, they asked for Vania's badual services., against his will.

Vania, finally, denounced Hortensia, who was arrested by the Attorney General's office. The authorities announced their arrest on Friday, February 22 on their social networks and canceled their YouTube channel..

Puebla and Tlaxcala are the states that report the highest number of cases of human trafficking in the country.

Until 2018, Puebla was the second entity with the highest number of victims of this crime and the first with the largest number of open search files, according to network information All rights for all.

From 2008 to 2017 435 investigations were opened for trafficking, according to the organization.

In Mexico, during the same period, 3,312 cases were counted, but only 1,156 criminal proceedings were initiated.. Of these, only 484 had been sentenced for criminals. That is, more than 80% went unpunished.

The Senate in its report "Trafficking in Persons", presented in 2017, identified in Puebla 9 areas of "capture" of women by networks of human trafficking.

The places where traffickers seek their victims are the Sierra Norte, Huauchinango, Zacatlan, Tehuacan, San Martín Texmelucan, Atlixco, Cholula and Tepeaca.

The criminals They are looking for people between 16 and 22 years old and usually, they then transfer their victims to the states of Veracruz, Tlaxcala, Oaxaca and Chiapas.