MEXICO CITY –
Authorities rescued 18 women who were being forced to work as prostitutes in the
southern state of Chiapas, Mexico’s interior ministry said Friday.Eight people, including two women, were arrested in connection with the forced prostitution scheme and three vehicles were seized.
The trafficking victims, five of them Central American migrants, told authorities they were abducted, held incommunicado and forced to render sexual services.
Once rescued, the 18 women were taken to a shelter where they received medical and psychological attention in accord with the protocol for treatment of sex-trafficking victims, the interior ministry said.
In a separate operation, Chiapas police and the federal INM migration agency detained 41 undocumented migrants from El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala.
The migrants were discovered inside a vehicle during a police stop in Tuxtla Gutierrez, the state capital. EFE
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