The Police announced the arrest and arraignment of 32-year old Italian, Luciano Tola accused of seducing and sexually abusing four minors. The minors (ages 5, 14, 15, and 16) had been reported missing by their parents. Nelson Rosario, spokesman for the Police, said Tola bribed the minors with new clothing and cash payments to have homosexual relations. Tola was arrested on 13 October in Boca Chica by the department of criminal investigations of the Police for sexual pervasion. Tola had arrived as a waiter on a Princess Cruises ship on 8 October. An evaluation carried out by physicians of the Program for Support to the Investigation and Verification of Sexual Abuses to Minors determined that the boys had genital lesions and the five year old had caught a venereal disease.
