Authorities from the State of Mexico reported that a man identified as Gerardo Domínguez Sánchez was sentenced to more than 18 years in prison after handing over his underage daughter to settle an economic debt. According to his testimony, the minor would be used to do housework.
Sánchez was sentenced for the crime of trafficking in persons for the purpose of exploitation and the aggravating circumstance that the victim is under 18 years of age. The case has shocked all of Mexico, as no one can believe that a father is capable of handing over his own daughter in exchange for money.
The events occurred in October 2019, when the victim was 14 years old and was handed over by her father to an individual, to whom she owed a large sum of money. At that time, the minor was locked up and forced to work for two months. Fortunately, in December of the same year, the minor managed to escape from her and went to the competent authorities for help.
The authorities took action on the matter and the Public Ministry requested the judicial authority to issue an arrest warrant against the person responsible, which was granted until June 2022, a period in which Sánchez was admitted to the Santiaguito Penitentiary and Social Reintegration Center. , in Almoloya de Juarez, Mexico.
One year after the arrest, the Attorney General’s Office of the State of Mexico reported through social networks that Sánchez has already been sentenced.
The #EdoMéx Prosecutor’s Office obtained the first sentence for the crime of human trafficking in the form of someone who delivers a person for the purpose of exploitation, with the aggravating circumstance that the victim is under 18 years of age, against Gerardo Domínguez.
The Judicial Authority handed down a sentence of 18 years and 9 months in prison for the defendant, who in October 2019, when the then 14-year-old victim was forced to work for two months at the home of an individual with whom he had a relationship. debt.
Sánchez was also fined 1,932,708 pesos, the amount of 63,958 pesos as reparation for moral damage and 183,430 pesos as reparation for material damage.
As for the victim, it is known that he has received help from the authorities.
Source: Okchicas
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