DOMINICAN REP-VENEZUELA-COLOMBIA-JUSTICE-SEX TRAFFICKING-CATTLEY

Detainees accused of involvement in a network of international sexual exploitation, are escorted after a hearing at the Permanent Attention Court of the National District, in Santo Domingo, on August 29, 2022. - Judge Kenya Romero issued 18 months of preventive detention against 11 of the 21 defendants, of Dominican, Colombian and Venezuelan nationalities, belonging to the alleged human trafficking network for sexual exploitation, which was dismantled in Operation Cattleya. Eighty women from Colombia and Venezuela who were lured into the Dominican Republic with false promises of well paid jobs, were rescued in the operation. (Photo by Erika SANTELICES / AFP) (Photo by ERIKA SANTELICES/afp/AFP via Getty Images)