Three convicted in Bora Bora Spa case for offering sexual services on social media

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Three convicted in Bora Bora Spa case for offering sexual services on social media

Two women and a man were found guilty of sexually exploiting women in businesses in the capital.

Women were victims of sexual exploitation in the Bora Bora Spa case. (Photo Prensa Libre: PL Archives)

The Public Prosecutor’s Office (MP) reported that in the Bora Bora Spa Case, three people were convicted of promoting, facilitating or aiding prostitution.

They are Hugo Leonel Ajcuc Tacatic, Nancy Paola Macario de León and Patricia Lucero Morales, who were sentenced to five years in prison and a fine of Q50,000 each.

As additional penalties, the judge ordered the registration of the convicted persons in the National Registry of Sexual Offenders and the confiscation of the seized money and destruction of material evidence.

As a form of worthy reparation, the court ordered rehabilitation measures consisting of psychological therapy for the three convicted men and the victims found at the site of exploitation. The therapy will be provided through the Victims’ Institute.

He also ordered them to carry out campaigns to prevent the crime of promoting, facilitating or encouraging prostitution.

The MP added that the convicted men were part, as collaborators, of a criminal organization dedicated to businesses with the appearance of massage centers, beauty salons, hotels, restaurants or bars called Bora Bora Spa in zone 14 and the Hotel Bar and Restaurant El Rey in zone 15.

He added that the criminal structure was dismantled on November 29, 2023.

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According to the investigation by the Prosecutor’s Office, the businesses were registered under the guise of legality and concealed the true nature of their function, which was the offering of sexual services through catalogues on social networks.

The MP added that the Unit against Criminal Structures and Special Cases of the Prosecutor’s Office against Human Trafficking presented the evidence so that the sentence would be handed down by the Single Criminal Sentencing Court with Jurisdiction over Human Trafficking Crimes of the department of Guatemala.