"We are going to put an end to networks of prostitution"

The Attorney General says that he began a serious process to hit the networks of trafficking. He worries that the country is sold as a place for sex.

SD. The networks of trafficking of prostitutes and human trafficking are the most organized in the country according to the Attorney General of the Republic, Francisco Dominguez Brito, who calls them "extremely strong and extremely organized."

He indicates that the participation of Dominican women, which are the fourth largest nationality of women with a presence in other countries exercising prostitution, is due, in the majority of the cases to recruitment by the networks.

Because of this he bases the continuation of his order to arrest the clients of those who exercise prostitution, starting from the existing relationship between the pimps and the vulnerability of the persons who can be prostituted, which is suggested in some legislation.

"We understand and we start based on the criteria that I have already made reference to, as an interpretation of this abolitionist theory, that they are victims, because the majority of them enter into this through the well organized networks....and these feed off of those clients that abuse this situation of vulnerability, they also have responsibility some way or another." But he makes it clear that with this issue, what the Attorney General is trying to do is generate a debate, since this not only is about the abuse of the victim , but rather it is also about other aspects that should "enormously" get the attention of the country.

Besides the semi-slave conditions to which the victims are subjected to, both women as well as men, Dominguez Brito is worried by the fact that there are areas of the country where the young women cannot go out at night for fear that they will be pestered and confused with some sex worker, or the stereotyping suffered by some Dominican women overseas in countries they visit.

He questions, in addition, that the country is being sold as a sex destination

However, Dominguez Brito, this week's guest at Dialogo Libre, the weekly conversation sponsored by Diario Libre and which is coordinated by the director, Adriano Miguel Tejada, warned that the authorities will not be indifferent in the face of this situation, and he said that starting now he has begun the process of creating a major blow to the networks.

He said that they are working in Sosua, Cabrera, and that they will put emphasis on Boca Chica and Las Terrenas. "As a result of the positions that we have taken, many people are laughing, and thinking that this is a game, and I believe that no, it is not a game. I believe that we Dominicans have to worry about this situation that is happening," concluded the Attorney General.