Aldana Orozco, who disappeared 10 years ago in Mendoza, Argentina at age 14 was found in Buenos Aires this week. She was the victim of a prostitution ring.

The minor disappear in July 2011 and neighbors reported at the time that the police had not started their search until two months later.

Aldana's relatives organized marches demanding her case to be solved in the first months of her disappearance and the news had international repercussions through the Missing Children organization.

It was said shortly after her disappearance that the girl had gone to San Luis with a boyfriend and there was an investigation by the San Luis police that had no further results.

On December 30 2020, the National Gendarmerie raided the parents' home, located on Avenida San Martín, a fact that caused a stir in the cityof Mendoza. By order of the federal court in turn, Mónica Maturano (Aldana's mother) has been transferred to the women's prison located in Borbollón, while her partner, Alberto Cacho Orozco, has been housed in the Boulogne Sur Mer prison.

Aldana was born in 1996, and was a high school student at the Marcelino Blanco school at the time. Maturano works in a home for the elderly and Orozco is a provincial highway employee.

A relative of the detainees, who requested that his name be reserved, said that "we are very happy to learn that Aldana is alive, but at the same time sad to think that her parents may have something to do with the incident."

The Federal Court investigates a network of trafficking of minors who were handed over by parents' to practice prostitution.

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