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Police investigate possible case of human trafficking

By on November 24, 2015
Orange Walk town

Orange Walk town

Orange Walk Town, ORANGE WALK. Tuesday, November 24, 2015. Police in Orange Walk are investigating what appears to be a case of human trafficking.

On Saturday afternoon authorities paid a visit to Dominguez Bar on the Otro Benque Road in Orange Walk town; but it was not a social visit.

Authorities had received information that something was not quite right at the establishment.

Aside from the owner of the establishment, a 33 year old Guatemalan national, police say they found two other women and a ten year old child, all residents of Poptun, Guatemala.

One of the women told authorities that the owner of the bar, brought her to Belize, purportedly to work in a fast-food place.

But that job offer, according to the woman, was far removed from what she actually was forced to do.

She told authorities that since arriving in Belize, she was taken to Dominguez Bar and made to sell liquor.

Furthermore, the woman says that she has not been paid by the bar owner and that she was twice forced to have sex with strangers under threat that her other children in Guatemala and mother would be killed.

Police investigations continue.

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