Colombian women are being trafficked into Ecuador to work as prostitutes and Ecuadorian children are being brought into Colombia to beg, claimed the government of Colombia's Nariño department this week.
The Crime Observatory in Nariño revealed that some five thousand women havd been recruited from cities across Colombia and sent to Ecuador as sex workers reported news station Caracol on Thursday.
According to the Observatory, 60% of the recruited women came from Colombia's second city, Medellin, while the rest came for Bogota, Cali, Pereira and Manizales.
Investigations have identified a criminal network of Ecuadorians and Colombians who are sending women to Ecuador while bringing children into Colombia to work as beggars, benefitting the network.
According to announcements made in Medellin on Thursday, these Colombian women had been sent to brothels in the Ecuadorian cities of Quito, Tulcan, Ibarra, Guayaquil, Esmeraldas.
