A man in San Martín has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for human trafficking for sexual exploitation and repeated sexual abuse against a victim, with whom he had two children and forced into a de facto union when she was a teenager. According to the news, in 2011, shortly before turning 15, the victim became pregnant as a result of one of the encounters. Her mother tried to make her have an abortion, but she refused. For nearly a decade, the young woman maintained a relationship with Polo, who forced her into a de facto union. In 2020, she began to refuse, and the man began to abuse her. In February of that year, she decided to report him for domestic violence at the local Women's Police Station, but after that the attacks intensified as he began to harass and threaten her with death. In one of the incidents, the aggressor set fire to her home, with her 3 and 9-year-old children inside. The court also found the sexual abuse with carnal access, repeated, as a result of which two children of the victim were born. 'At this point, it should be highlighted that the so-called 'de facto union' that the accused imposed on the victim, far from being a freely chosen affective relationship, constitutes a contemporary form of marital servitude or 'forced marriage', expressly recognized in article 145 of the Criminal Code as a manifestation of exploitation,' the judge stated.
