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The prosecutor Berenice Romero investigates two other alleged victims of Felix Steven Manrique the leader of the religious sect who captured three women, including Spanish Patricia Aguilar 19 years old
"They (the two new alleged victims) still do not declare, those who complained are their parents and what they do in the car are appreciations, opinions of parents, "Romero told the newspaper El Comercio .
The Chief of the Special Prosecutor for Human Trafficking has indicated that has seven days to make the preliminary inquiry and during which he will take the statements of Manrique, the Spanish Aguilar and the Peruvians Paola Vega and Maryori García who lived in the same sect and had children with the chief.
"I still do not know the versions of the three women you are neither of him nor minors," he added. Regarding the other victims, the prosecutor stated that these cases date back to previous years and that it is about women living in Lima .
Manrique, who would have been the leader of The religious group Gnosis convinced of Aguilar, from Elche (Alicante), to leave his family and join him in Peru, what He made January 7, 2017, just 18 years old. In Peru, the young woman lived with Manrique and the other two women in a rudimentary house in the jungle where she had a daughter of her.
Suspect will remain in detention until July 12
Manrique, 35, was arrested last Wednesday and transferred to Lima by the National Police on investigation for the alleged crime of the trafficking in human beings while women and five minors are treated by the Office of the Prosecutor's Victims and Witnesses Program.
Prosecutor Romero explained that Manrique had been the subject of an investigation since last year due to the disappearance of Vega, 42, and García, 29, and that last January the case of the young Spanish woman was accumulated.
Among the items on which the prosecutor is investigating, are screenshots of a social network that Manrique apparently managed to capture. Meanwhile, the suspect will remain in detention until July 12 date when the prosecutor must have decided to seek his preventive detention based on the evidence that he collects.
"If I have sufficient evidence of a probable cause I can ask for my case before the Judiciary and I can apply for pre-trial detention, but this is not certain for the moment because I do not have sufficient evidence of conviction, "Romero told the Peruvian newspaper. The house where the women lived was located in San Martín de Pangoa, in Satipo province, in the jungle, on the eastern slope of the Peruvian Andes, about 450 kilometers from Lima
(According to information provided by EFE)
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