Police hunting for a missing two-year-old boy uncovered a home where 23 abducted children were being held. The youngsters, some as young as three months old, ranged in age up to 15 years.
Three women also found inside the house in San Cristóbal de Las Casas, in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas, were arrested on human trafficking and forced labour charges.
The children were being used to sell home-made crafts in the town, popular with tourist. The youngsters were made to work under threat of “physical and psychological violence,” according to a statement from the state’s attorney general.
The rescue mission began after the attorney general’s office launched a search for Dylan Esaú Gómez Pérez, a toddler who went missing on Tuesday,
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