2023-06-26 04:01:00
During the hearing on May 10, Lisseth Valencia-Ospina and Nadia Gonzalez-Sese had to report on their activities in the field of prostitution in a house in Athus. They recognize without hesitation that they devote themselves to the oldest profession in the world. They are prosecuted for human trafficking and for having exploited vulnerable people for prostitution. They risked a lot despite the thunderous argument of Me Dimitri De Coster who was offended by a hypocritical society and justice, which authorizes prostitution, but condemns its exploitation. The defense demanded that they be judged on their job, which is difficult but respectable, and not on the exploitation of other peripateticians, with whom they shared premises to provide hygiene and safety to the ladies and their clients.
Judge Jean-Paul Pavanello, on reading the investigators’ file, concluded irrefutably that the two defendants derived substantial benefits from their other friends. He followed the public prosecutor, represented by the deputy public prosecutor, Julien Docquier, who had requested a severe sanction. “I understand that prostitution is a difficult profession, he stated in his indictment, but here we are in front of people who do not prostitute themselves, but who exploit people in a precarious situation by taking €20,000 a month from them. That, it is unacceptable !”
He had requested three and two years in prison for the two defendants, with respective fines of €120,000 and €80,000. Lisseth Valencia-Ospina was sentenced to three years in prison and a fine of €56,000. She has been given a five-year reprieve for 2/3 of the prison sentence and half of the fine. Nadia Gonzalez-Sese, who assisted her, was sentenced to 18 months in prison and a fine of €56,000. She benefits from a five-year reprieve for what exceeds her preventive detention and 4/5 of the fine. They are both deprived of their rights for a period of five years.
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