{"id":1995891,"date":"2023-08-09T19:18:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-09T23:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/alleged-florida-sex-traffickers-busted-two-minor-girls-freed-thanks-to-motel-owner\/"},"modified":"2023-08-09T19:21:20","modified_gmt":"2023-08-09T23:21:20","slug":"alleged-florida-sex-traffickers-busted-two-minor-girls-freed-thanks-to-motel-owner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/alleged-florida-sex-traffickers-busted-two-minor-girls-freed-thanks-to-motel-owner\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida sex traffickers apprehended, two underage girls rescued by motel owner."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Falleged-florida-sex-traffickers-busted-two-minor-girls-freed-thanks-to-motel-owner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1995891&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>A Heroic Act: \u200bMotel Owner Rescues Trafficked Girls<\/h2>\n<p>In a remarkable turn of events, a Florida motel owner&#8217;s quick \u2064thinking led to the rescue of \u200dtwo minor girls and the arrest of alleged\u2062 child sex traffickers. Ricardo Flores, 44, and Maria Barrios Calero,\u2062 44, were apprehended and charged with human trafficking.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2063story unfolded at \u2062the Lago \u200bMotor Inn, just south \u2064of \u2062West Palm Beach, where Flores checked in alone early Sunday morning. However, an argument between Flores\u2062 and Calero caught the attention\u2064 of motel owner Richard \u2062Baron, prompting him to investigate.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cHe \u200c [Flores] opened the door,\u2062 and then I \u200dsee two young women, girls, sitting in yoga style, in the middle of\u2063 the bed,\u201d Baron told \u200dlocal outlet WPEC. \u201cShe [Calero] \u200c says to me, \u2018He has to pay, he\u200d didn\u2019t pay.\u2019 I don\u2019t know what\u2062 happened between them.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Baron&#8217;s shock intensified when he noticed a condom near Flores, who sat on the bed with the two\u200c girls. The situation\u200b appeared alarming, with \u2062the girls\u2064 sitting quietly, their eyes\u200d filled with\u200c fear.<\/p>\n<p>Without hesitation, Baron called the police and captured footage of Calero attempting to flee with the young\u2062 girls. \u200bThe Palm Beach Sheriff\u2019s Office\u2019s Human Exploitation and Trafficking Unit swiftly responded, \u2064confirming that\u200b both minors were victims of commercial sex trafficking.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cInitial fact-finding by detectives on scene confirmed the commercial\u200d sex trafficking of two minor victims,\u201d \u200bthe \u2064Palm Beach County Police Department said \u2062in a\u200d statement. \u201cThe two minor \u2063victims along with the two \u2064suspects were transported \u200bto a local \u2064substation for\u2063 interviews.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Flores\u200b allegedly paid\u2064 to engage in sexual\u200b activities\u200c with both girls. Consequently, \u200dCalero\u2063 faced three counts of human\u200b trafficking, while Flores faced two counts.<\/p>\n<p>As the suspects were taken into custody and transported to the Palm Beach County Jail, Baron&#8217;s actions were commended. Having undergone mandatory training to \u2063identify signs of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-administration-anti-trafficking-office-had-incredible-impact\/\" title=\"Trump administration anti-trafficking office had \u2018incredible impact\u2019\">child sexual exploitation<\/a> and\u2064 forced prostitution, Baron exemplified the importance of\u200b public vigilance in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-releases-list-of-president-trumps-accomplishments-and-it-is-historic\/\" title=\"White House Releases List of President Trump\u2019s Accomplishments \u2013  And It Is Historic!\">combating human trafficking<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>State Attorney Dave Aronberg, who leads\u200d Palm Beach County\u2019s human\u2062 trafficking task force, emphasized the significance of community involvement in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/alleged-florida-sex-traffickers-busted-two-minor-girls-freed-thanks-to-motel-owner\/\" title=\"Florida sex traffickers apprehended, two underage girls rescued by motel owner.\">eradicating \u200dmodern-day slavery<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWe can\u2019t be everywhere. We \u200ddepend on the public to be our eyes and \u200dears. That\u2019s why we see mandatory signage in places where we have a\u200b number\u200b of individuals who have been victims of human trafficking,\u200d like bus stations and rest stops on the highway,\u201d the state attorney said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Florida faces a significant human\u2064 trafficking \u200cproblem, ranking as the third highest state\u2064 for such cases. \u200cThe Florida Alliance to End Human Trafficking reports \u200cthat the average age of victims forced into sex trafficking is between 12\u200b and 14 years \u200bold. In 2021 alone, over 10,000 cases of human \u200dtrafficking were identified in Florida through a\u200b hotline.<\/p>\n<p>Director of \u2062Victim Services Nicole Bishop highlighted \u2063Palm Beach County&#8217;s \u200bunfortunate status as\u2064 the state&#8217;s third-highest region for reported human trafficking \u2062incidents.<\/p>\n<p>This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-police-rescue-children-in-locked-cage-dealing-with-a-monster\/\" title=\"Video: Police Save Kids Trapped in Cage: Battling a Beast\">harrowing incident serves<\/a> as \u200ca reminder of the ongoing battle against\u200b human trafficking and\u200b the crucial\u2062 role each individual plays in protecting vulnerable individuals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Florida motel owner, Richard Baron, rescued two minor girls and apprehended Ricardo Flores, 44, and Maria Barrios Calero, 44, who were allegedly involved in child sex trafficking. The quick thinking of Baron led to their arrest on Sunday, with both facing charges of human trafficking. Flores had checked into Lago motel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":1995893,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1995891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1995891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1995891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1995891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1995893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1995891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1995891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1995891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}