Thanks to the Persistence of Mrs. Argentina Looking Up Her Sex Slave Can Save Hundreds

By : Emily Schmall | Associated Press 

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CAS Channel -- A Mother's Sex Slave Argentina Save HundredsThanks to the persistence of Mrs. Argentina Looking Up Her Sex Slave Can Save HundredsSusana Trimarco is a housewife who was busy with his family and did not pay much attention to the news, until one day his daughter, Veron, went to see a doctor and never returned.After getting a little help from the police, Trimarco find out for himself about the existence of his daughter. He heard there was a 23 years old girl abducted and forced to become sex slaves. He was soon visited the brothels, looking for clues. But his search gets additional purpose: to rescue sex slaves and help them start a new life.Steps taken Trimarco 10 years ago developed into a movement and today, she is a hero to hundreds of women who he rescued from the trap of prostitution Argentina. He was awarded the "Women of Courage" by the U.S. State Department and was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize on 28 November.On Sunday night, President Cristina Fernandez gave him an award for human rights in the face of hundreds of thousands of people in the Plaza de Mayo.But many years of exploring search criminal underworld has not been brought Trimarco find the missing Veron. "I live for this," Trimarco said the 58-year-old told The Associated Press about the ongoing quest."I have no other life, and the truth is, it's very sad, very bleak, I would not expect anyone else to live like this."Painful journey has now reached a milestone.Publicity for his efforts to make government Trimarco Argentina makes her case as a priority case. A total of 13 people have been charged for allegedly kidnapping Veron and make it as a sex slave in an illegal brothel in business. Prostitution is not illegal in Argentina, but the exploitation of women for sex is illegal.A decision is expected to come out on Tuesday after the trial for almost a year.Seven men and six women pleaded not guilty and their lawyers said there was no physical evidence to support the allegations against them. The leader of the group known Veron denied and said that women working in brothels were doing it voluntarily. The prosecutor demanded sentences of 25 years in prison for them.Trimarco is the main witness during the trial, testified for six days in a row about the search for her daughter.Frustrated by the loss of his daughter, Trimarco launch its own investigation and found a taxi driver who said he had led her to a brothel where she was beaten and forced into prostitution. The driver was one of the defendants.With her husband and grandchildren in tow, Trimarco prostitute posing as a recruiter and enter every brothel searching for clues. She soon finds herself immersed in a dangerous world and the grim of an organized crime, gather evidence against the police, politicians and gangsters."For the first time, I really understood what happened to my daughter," he said. "I was with my husband and my granddaughter Micaela, asleep in the backseat of the car because he was very young and I did not have anyone to leave him."The first woman who saved Trimarco taught him to be strong, he said."I remember him forever: He told me to not let them see me cry, because people are shameless who kidnapped my daughter will laugh at me, and suffering," Trimarco said. "Since then I do not cry anymore I've made myself strong, and when I felt that the tears may fall, I remembered those words, and I kept quiet .."Micaela, 13 years, always on the side of his grandmother, providing support for a publicity campaign against human trafficking and keep memories alive for her.More than 150 witnesses testified in the trial, including a dozen former sex slave who describes the brutal conditions in a brothel.Veron may have been kidnapped twice, with the complicity of the authorities who are supposed to protect him, according to Julio Fernandez, chief of police Tucuman aimed to investigate human trafficking. He said that witnesses reported seeing Veron at a bus station three days after she disappeared first, and that a police officer of La Rioja, Domingo Pascual Andrada, sent her to a brothel there.Other Tucuman Police testified that when they asked for permission in 2002 to look for in a brothel La Rioja, the judge made them wait for hours, allowing the kidnappers to move Veron. The story was backed up by a woman who had been a prostitute in a brothel: He testified that Veron moved before police arrived. Judge denies any connection with the defendant.Some former prostitutes say they have seen Veron drugged and limp. One of them testified Veron feel trapped and missed her daughter. Others said he saw Veron with dyed blonde hair and a baby boy who gets pregnant due to rape by the leader of the gang. There is a report that says Veron was sold to a brothel in Spain - in an Interpol report.Trimarco campaign to find his daughter making the State Department to provide funds for a foundation on behalf of Veron. To date, it has saved more than 900 women and girls from sex trafficking. The foundation also provides housing, medical and psychological assistance, and helps victims sue former captors.Argentina prohibits trafficking in 2008, largely due to the work of the foundation. A new force dedicated to combating human trafficking has freed more than 3,000 victims in the past two years, said Security Minister Nilda Garre, who wrote a commentary in the newspaper and said the court ruling was supposed to be an example.Whatever the verdict, attorney Trimarco, Carlos Garmendia, said the case has made a difference."Human trafficking is a problem that is not touched until the case (Veron) Marita," said Garmendia. "The case has put it on the national agenda."But Trimarco want more. "I wish they would give up and say what they do with Marita," he said."I feel it in my heart that he was alive and I will not stop until I find her," said Trimarco. "If he is no longer in this world, I want to find her."