Courts of Violence against Women in Caracas will judge three citizens involved in human trafficking towards that Asian nation.
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Press release
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The Criminal Cassation Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) ordered to refer to the presidency of the Criminal Judicial Circuit of the Caracas Metropolitan Area the case followed by Oriana José Brito Brito, Yanzhen Wu and Yu Huan Feng, for the alleged commission of the crimes of trafficking in persons, association and use of adolescents to commit crimes, typified in articles 41 and 37 of the Organic Law against Organized Crime and Financing of Terrorism and article 264 of the Organic Law for the Protection of Children and Adolescents.
In decision No. 59-2020, with a presentation by magistrate Francia Coello González, the Criminal Cassation Chamber declared admissible the appeal requested by the defense of one of the accused, and removed the cause of the Judicial Circuit with Jurisdiction in the Matter of Crimes of Violence against Women from the state of La Guaira to another Court of First Instance in the Special Gender Trial of the Metropolitan Area of Caracas.
Brito Brito, Wu and Huan Feng are prosecuted for their alleged participation in a trafficking network that aimed to bring young Venezuelans captured in Aragua state to the People’s Republic of China, in order to subject them to sexual exploitation in that nation.
The three defendants were detained at Maiquetía International Airport when they tried to remove seven young women from the country to the Asian country.
The ruling is specified, through the exposition of concepts established in the laws, jurisprudence and doctrine in the matter, which in the definition of the crime of trafficking in women, girls and adolescents is defined in article 56 of the Organic Law on Law of Women to a Life Free of Violence, having to understand that it is “a crime that violates human rights, which is why, the operators of justice in these cases must have a different perspective than common cases, this for the purposes of not generating impunities and guaranteeing the principle of effective judicial protection and due process constitutionally patented ”.
Emphasizes the decision, the vulnerability in which the victim is in this type of criminal, either for reasons of age or for economic reasons, being taken advantage of “by the aggressor or aggressors to subject her to a condition, which in most cases cases is sexual exploitation or labor exploitation ”.
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