Mother who sold her 12-year-old daughter’s virginity for $100 jailed
– A mother who forced her own daughters into prostitution was jailed for 22 years
– The woman sold her children’s virginity for $100 to wealthy tourists
Margarita de Jesus Zapata, from Bogota, Colombia, was arrested in 2013 after one of her 13 daughters went to police claiming her mother forced her and sisters into prostitution.
Mother Margarita de Jesus Zapata has been jailed for 22 years for selling her daughter’s virginity
The girl, who was 17 at the time, said she was abused since the age of 12, her virginity was sold for 300.000 Colombian pesos (around N19.370) and her baby was aborted.
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According to some media sources, the evil mom sold her daughters’ virginities once they turned 12 years old, whereupon they have to work in sex industry to pay the bills.
Police chief Carlos Melendez, investigating the case, said: “It hurts that a mother would do this. ‘The mother contacted highly solvent but depraved men so they could have sex with the minors when they turned 12.”
A man known as Tito Cornelio Daza was also sentenced to 12 years behind bars
Zapata was arrested along with Tito Cornelio Daza, 51, a man believed to be a biological father of the girl’s baby. The pair were found guilty of carnal abuse of a minor and the enforcement of prostitution.
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Daza was jailed for 12 years, while Zapata, who denied all the allegations brought against her, was sentenced to 22 year behind the bars. Some of her daughters reportedly cooperated with the investigators, they are currently in care of local social services.
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