International Joint Operations Against Child Sex Trafficking Result in Prosecutions and Retaliatory Lawsuits

On October 12, 2014, following months of undercover investigations, an international team of law enforcement and anti-human trafficking organizations sprung Operation Cristal II to simultaneously take down sex trafficking networks involving minor and adolescent victims that catered to foreign tourists, politicians, and businessmen in Cartagena, Medellín,[2] and Armenia.