Mum jailed for 22 years after selling 12-yr-old daughter's virginity for $98

April 6, 2016 6:41 PM

The woman identified as, Margarita de Jesús Zapata, 48, who is reportedly from Colombia has been now been sentenced to 22 years in jail for the sale of her daughter’s virginity.

Margarita de Jesús Zapata

News reports have revealed the sentencing of a mother who reportedly sold her 12-yr-old daughters virginity for the equivalent of $98.

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The woman identified as, Margarita de Jesús Zapata, 48, who is reportedly from Colombia has been now been sentenced to 22 years in jail for the sale of her daughter’s virginity.

Local media reports that a municipal court in Bogota reportedly handed down the sentence based on charges of several counts of pimping and sexual slavery.

The local Prosecutor’s Office, in a press release, revealed that Zapata, who is a mother of 13, has reportedly asked for 300,000 pesos ($98) for the virginity of her 12-year-old daughter who had bravely reported the ‘transaction’ to the police although the exact time the crime had been committed, was not revealed.

Spain’s news agency, EFE, reveals that the man who had reportedly paid the above mentioned sum, Tito Cornelio Daza, was also handed down a sentencing of 12 years behind bars and a fine of 72 million pesos ($24,000) for the crime which had reportedly left the little girl pregnant.

The investigation also revealed that, Zapata had also forced most of her children, who are also underage into sexual slavery.

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Zapata and Daza who had been arrested in 2013 have now been charged with “carnal abuse of a minor and enforcement of prostitution.”