A sex trafficking operation in Danbury, Conn., where men paid to have sex with 15-year-old girls, was busted Tuesday night, according to police.
Five men were arrested in the raid at what authorities described as a brothel, the Danbury News-Times reported. One man, Oswaldo Ordoñez-Ortega was charged with sex trafficking, while four others were accused of paying to have sex with the underage girls.
Two 15-year-olds, who have not been publicly identified, were found in the residence, according to the News-Times. One of the girls had been reported missing out of Manhattan, and the other was from Queens.
Cops said Ordoñez-Ortega, 39, used an unidentified intermediary to contact the two teenagers and convinced them to travel to the Danbury residence, the News-Times reported. The girls were then advertised as underage prostitutes, police said.
The girl from Queens told police she had sex with seven different men between the time she arrived in Connecticut on Monday and when cops burst in on Tuesday. She said the men paid Ordoñez-Ortega, who was found with more than $1,300 in cash on him when he was arrested.
Marco Robles, Edwin Quilli-Tacuri and Bryan Vasquez-Salinas are accused of having sex with the girls and charged with sexual assault, risk of injury to a child and commercial sex abuse of a minor, local ABC affiliate WTNH reported. Another man, Stalin Vasquez, was charged with conspiracy to commit commercial sex abuse of a minor.