Dozens of people were found on Wednesday in squalid conditions, chained and in c...
PORT OF SPAIN - Dozens of people were found on Wednesday in squalid conditions, chained and in cages in a Trinidad and Tobago rehabilitation center run by a religious group for ex-prisoners and drug users, where some were tortured and held for years, police said.
Police said in a statement that 65 men and 4 women were rescued from a “modern-day slavery” operation at the Transformed Life Ministry Rehabilitation Centre in Arouca, 19 kilometers east of the capital Port of Spain. Six people at the compound were arrested. Police spokesman Wayne Mystar said all the people at the center were nationals of Trinidad and Tobago. Police Commissioner Gary Griffith said the situation amounted to “human trafficking” and added that the people who were rescued stated that some of them had been imprisoned for years and been tortured.
According to its website, Awong, while serving a seven-year term in prison, “answered the call from God and started his ministry within the prison walls.”“Transformed Life Ministry’s mission is to serve male ex-prisoners and deportees, by providing safe transitional housing, developmental and rehabilitation program, to promote healthy reintegration into society,” the center says on the website.
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