A judge has convicted two retired Colombian police officers of inciting prostitution for allegedly inciting young police recruits to engage in sexual activity, the Public Prosecution Service of the Republic of Colombia has reported.
Jerson Jair Castellanos Soto and Wilmer Torres Orjuela will know the terms of the sentence at the end of September, the prosecution said in a statement.
According to the South American country’s Prosecutor’s Office, Castellanos Soto went to the General Santander Cadet School, in the south of Bogotá, between 2005 and 2006 to interact with young people and gain their trust with gifts and invitations to lunches or sporting events . and culturally “then inducing them to engage in sexual activity”.
At least five ensigns, under pressure and under threat of not being able to continue their careers, agreed to meet with the colonel, then chief of congressional security.
On the other hand, then Major Torres Orjuela, who was responsible for student control, intimidated the victims and facilitated their departure from the school building so that they could meet their superior, Colonel Castellanos Soto.
Source: DN
