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== Personal Investigations == |
== Personal Investigations == |
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After just a few hours past her |
After just a few hours past her disappearance, Trimarco began frantically searching for her daughter and filtering reports of sightings. A street prostitute said she had heard about the kidnapping. About a dozen people called in, all with the same story, and each caller described a woman who could have been Marita. Whenever Trimarco asked for police help the authorities proved to be unhelpful. "Whatever way I told the police to look, they would look the opposite way {{Cite web |last=Johnson |first=Scott C. |date=2012 |title=Argentina’s Susana Trimarco: One Mother’s Fight Against Human Trafficking |url=https://www.newsweek.com/argentinas-susana-trimarco-one-mothers-fight-against-human-trafficking-65407}}" she said. |
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Trimarco quoted: "I screamed until I couldn't scream anymore. And then I realized that I had to be strong. I had to think with my head and not just my heart. These people were powerful, and I was a nobody, and I had no money, no power, no resources. I had to be smarter than them if I wanted to get my daughter back. " She began investigating on her own. She started dressing up as a prostitute and visiting bars in La Rioja that doubled as brothels. She got the phone numbers of people she suspected of being involved in trafficking and called them saying she wanted to buy girls. In June 2002 she set up a meeting with a female trafficker and gained access to a safe house where 12 girls were being held hostage. "Minors or adults?" the woman asked her. When Trimarco said minors, the woman told her each girl would cost her a minimum of 3500 pesos. Promising to return with the funds Trimarco left and informed the police, who then saved the girls . |
Trimarco quoted: "I screamed until I couldn't scream anymore. And then I realized that I had to be strong. I had to think with my head and not just my heart. These people were powerful, and I was a nobody, and I had no money, no power, no resources. I had to be smarter than them if I wanted to get my daughter back. " She began investigating on her own. She started dressing up as a prostitute and visiting bars in La Rioja that doubled as brothels. She got the phone numbers of people she suspected of being involved in trafficking and called them saying she wanted to buy girls. In June 2002 she set up a meeting with a female trafficker and gained access to a safe house where 12 girls were being held hostage. "Minors or adults?" the woman asked her. When Trimarco said minors, the woman told her each girl would cost her a minimum of 3500 pesos. Promising to return with the funds Trimarco left and informed the police, who then saved the girls . |
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