“I am looking for my daughter and I continue to rescue girls ,” she says. Trimarco has not wavered in her fight, which is similar to that of other mothers who have lost their daughters to the sex trade. But nobody in the country was able to provide a single clue about Marita’s whereabouts. She knocked on the door of the Spanish embassy in Buenos Aires and even got José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, then the Spanish prime minister, to issue an invitation to come to Madrid. It was back in 2007 that she turned her sights on Spain. “They tear them from their families, sell them and exploit them” I went to Spain on a lead that suggested she had been sold there, but the attorney in Burgos had neither her photograph nor her fingerprints.” But the justice system is not looking for her. “I harbor the hope that they will say something about my daughter. They kidnap women, tear them from their families, sell them and exploit them,” she says. “They are accomplices to the trafficking. Trimarco’s lawyers are asking for sentences ranging between 20 and 25 years. The higher court has established that three lower-ranking judges must be the ones to establish the penalties for the 10 guilty parties. Now I hope that these criminals will be arrested, because there is a flight risk.” “With the intervention by the Supreme Court, an important step has been taken. “The 2012 decision was shameful, because there was enough evidence there for a conviction some victims of the sex-trafficking rings were brave enough to step up and say where they had seen my daughter,” explains Susana Trimarco in a telephone conversation with EL PAÍS. A year later, the Supreme Court of Tucumán reviewed the case, and convicted 10 out of the 13 suspects.Īrgentina’s most courageous mom has won the legal battle, but her victory is not complete. But Susana Trimarco promised herself that she would not shed a single tear.
Her dangerous adventure lasted all of a decade, until she finally managed to haul Marita’s pimp and 12 alleged collaborators before a judge.Ī year ago, a provincial court in Tucumán acquitted them all. The life of an Argentinean woman named Susana Trimarco took a dramatic turn in 2002, when a human-trafficking ring abducted her daughter Marita Verón, then 23, and forced her into prostitution.įeeling powerless after the courts and the police refused to investigate the case, the courageous Trimarco, 47, did not hesitate to disguise herself as a prostitute to gain access to the brothels, where she hoped to find clues as to her daughter’s whereabouts. Susana Trimarco poses with a photo of her daughter, Marita Verón.
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