Authorities rescued two teen girls during a sex trafficking operation in Danbury, Connecticut, on Tuesday night, according to police. Five men were taken into custody on a variety of sex crime charges. The raid occurred at what authorities described as a brothel.
Oswaldo Ordonez-Ortega, 39, has been charged with sex trafficking, while the other four men are accused of paying to have sex with underage girls. The two victims, both aged 15, have not been publicly identified. One of the victims was from Queens, New York, while the other recently arrived in the United States from Venezuela and had been reported missing out of Manhattan, according to police.
The News-Times reported that Ordonez-Ortega used an intermediary device to contact the two teen girls and convince them to travel to the Danbury residence on Chappelle Street. After the girls arrived at the residence, they were advertised as underage prostitutes, police said. An unidentified woman connected the two victims to Ordonez-Ortega.
Court documents state that one of the girls, identified as Juvenile 1, told police that she had been to the Chappelle Street residence on three occasions. Ordonez-Ortega facilitated the transport from New York to Connecticut via Uber. Her most recent trip was on Monday and she had sexual intercourse with seven different men. The men allegedly paid Ordonez-Ortega based on the amount of time they spent with her, per court filings obtained by the paper.
The other victim, identified as Juvenile 2 in court documents, told authorities that she had been at the residence for at least a few days. Shortly before police busted the operation, an "unknown male" offered money to have Juvenile 2 perform sexual acts on him. Authorities discovered a man zipping up his pants in a bedroom with the victim during the raid.
The two teen girls, who were both wearing lingerie, did not know each other before they were rescued. The victims were transported to a Danbury Hospital for evaluation, police said.
During the raid, Danbury Police said that officers located Ordonez-Ortega and several other men inside the Chappelle Street apartment. Bryan Vasquez-Salinas, 26, of Danbury, Edwin Ramiro Quilli-Tacuri, 40, of Danbury, and Stalin D. Vasquez, 25, of Bethel, were apprehended inside the residence. Prior to entering the residence, authorities were conducting surveillance at the property and apprehended Marco A. Robles, 40, of Brookfield, who police said exited a basement and got into a vehicle.
Robles, Quilli-Tacuri, and Vasquez-Salinas have been charged with sexual assault, risk of injury to a child, and commercial sex abuse of a minor, while Vasquez has been charged with conspiracy to commit commercial sex abuse of a minor, WTNH reported.
