El Agustino: Mayor criminalizes and threatens foreign sex workers detained at police station for operation

Richard Soriemayor of El Agustino, criminalized and threatened a group of sex workers foreigners who were arrested this Friday after an operation carried out by the municipality and the National Police (PNP).

“We are going to bring in the Aliens Police to do their job. If you want to work, go somewhere else. We’re not going to allow that here. I assure you that with the troops and the calm we will be relentless so that they do not return, ”said the mayor, according to a clip shared by the Municipality.

The unexpected procedure was carried out after complaints from residents of the Cooperativa Huancayo area, since the Soria team arrived with that of the district police station, under the direction of Commissioner Eduardo Adolfo Morales.

The municipality reports that “several women of foreign nationality” have been transferred to the police station of the jurisdiction, and announces “that these operations will be carried out frequently”. The images of the women who intervened were broadcast on social networks, despite their condition of vulnerability.

Considering this, the defense published a press release in which he urges to fight “against citizen precariousness with strict respect for the rights of all, without discrimination or stigmatization of any kind”.

“The ace sex workers They constitute one of the most marginalized, stigmatized and abused groups of women, a situation that worsens if they are migrants, young or minors, even worse when in many cases they are victims of trafficking or sexual exploitation. , the agency added.

For this reason, the police and other entities “must reinforce their commitment to the protection of human rights, avoiding exposing them to any type of public exposure that threatens their dignity”.

Janet Cutlerpresident of Perú Diversa and responsible for the Agustidiversas program in El Agustino, pointed out that last year the Ministry of Women established that “all public entities in the state must have training in the gender approach, and it seems to me that this municipality still does not receive them.”

“Unfortunately, sex workers have no fixed location and have to be on street corners. I don’t think there is yet a municipality that can resolve this kind of situation. For the mayor to only say ‘this is bad, it offends the families, we will kick them out of here, period’ rather generates more stigma,” he said. Infobase.

“There are people who force some to practice prostitution, they must be intervened,” he noted. According to Human Trafficking Division of the Police, the mafias can bring into the country up to 80 foreign women a day to sexually exploit them.

“They don’t care about girls. I found several very young women using drugs, even sick. They aren’t interested in anything as long as they stop them in a corner and start charging. I bring her because she has a vagina, period, they think. And the younger, the better. The only profile is that: that she has a vagina and that she is young,” he said. Angela Villonpresident of the Miluska Life and Dignity Association.

In a report published by this media, Ángela maintained that these criminal organizations dedicated to pimping They may invest 2,000 to 2,500 soles in transport, food and accommodation for the girls, but they enslave them with debts of up to 15,000 dollars. “It’s a debt they never finished paying. They keep charging them and they keep charging them. This is how they keep them for years,” he remarked.