Human trafficking is a global problem and one of the most shameful crimes in existence. In Buenos Aires, they found a bill with a message from a kidnapped young woman asking for help: «Hello, I’m in a place called Los Herreras, Luis the one-eyed man has had me for three years, please, mom, help me, I miss you, I’m Gabriela Suárez.» Coincidentally, the information in the message coincides with what is known about a girl who disappeared in that Argentine city.
In the General Directorate of Registry of Missing Persons of the province of Buenos Aires, «Suárez Chaves Abigail Gabriela», about 20 years old, appears as missing on April 15, 2012, in Gutiérrez, Berazategui. There she describes the clothes she was wearing at the time she disappeared and her physical characteristics are given: robust build, size 1.57, thin, approximately 58 kilos, green eyes, white complexion, long light brown hair . When there is very specific data, it is investigated by the security force, in this case it was investigated by Protex (Office of the Human Trafficking and Exploitation Attorney).
Two other pieces of information emerge from what is written on the ticket: one that it would be a place called Los Herrera, located in the province of Tucumán, south of the capital, on Route 306. The other piece of information is the name of who would have kidnapped the young woman and her pseudonym, a key point to find someone in a town in the interior of the province.
Those words written on a 10-peso bill raised hundreds of repercussions on social networks and the photo with the inscription was shared thousands of times, creating concern and anguish.
After receiving the complaint, the investigation was immediately initiated, but the veracity of the bill was not known since there were other occasions in which bills appeared raising similar situations, in which no positive data has been given. Finally, after the networks made the news viral, it was found that Gabriela Suarez’s request for help on the $10 bill was false. In a statement distributed to the press, it was reported that Abigail Gabriela Suárez Chávez was missing in April 2012, but she was found a few days later with no trace of having been a victim of the crime of human trafficking. On that occasion, the search began as a result of a complaint at the Women and Family Police Station.
It has been possible to have telephone contact with the young woman, who, based on the great diffusion that the case reached in the media, appeared at the headquarters of the Register of Missing Persons of the Ministry of Security of the Province of Buenos Aires and there ratified feel well and requested that you stop spreading your personal data and your photograph for your peace of mind, that of your family and close friends.
It can be affirmed then, the unusual danger that social networks represent, affecting the life of the community, by generating unverified information creating alarms, fears and fears.