Legion Troll
A fine upstanding poster
Sex tourists visiting Medellín knew him as “Colombia Jake,” the friendly local guide who made sure they had a good time. He could arrange a “Pablo Escobar tour,” visiting the grave and some of the houses of the infamous drug lord who, for better or worse, put that lovely old Colombian city on the map in the 1980s.
Medellín has changed since then, but as a local newspaper columnist lamented recently, there lingers “absurd inequality, where the few opportunities that many people (many women, in this case) may have are to denigrate themselves in front of those who abuse them, those who take advantage of their bodies to satisfy their morbid curiosity.”
It’s a city where girls as young as 10 are recruited, and their virginity sold to the highest bidding sex tourist.
So it’s the kind of place a pimp can make a good living, and according to the police who arrested him and charged him with abusing a girl younger than 14, Colombia Jake fit right in.
The wonder of it is that Jake wasn’t nabbed long before. Even by the low standards of “escort service” advertising, his cobbled-together websites—including colombiajake.com—were crude, crass, and to the point.
Police said they found $10,600 in cash, as well as cocaine and ecstasy, at his three-bedroom property. They found an inflatable tub there as well (which figures in some of his publicity pictures), and they found a 13-year-old girl (some reports say 12).
Prostitution by women over 18 years of age is legal in Medellín, but pimping is not, and pimping minors definitely is not.
The “Colombia Jake” homepage and related sites will be presented in court as evidence, and they’ve already been plastered all over the Colombian press.
The most easily accessible Jake websites show photographs of women in bikinis sitting by an inflatable pool, and a topless woman giving a naked man a massage. Others feature a grinning Jake in a hot tub with his arms around two women.
There’s also a YouTube testimonial illustrated with more girls and the voice of someone called “Dr. Bruce,” who claims he’s the kind of guy who goes to Super Bowls and has seen a lot of action in a lot of places. “Nobody is killin’ it like you are,” says the voice-over of anonymous Dr. Bruce.
“I’m here to help make sure you have the Best Vacation of your Life!” Jake boasts in blue type with a lot of capital letters: “That’s why guys come here to Enjoy the Beautiful Women, Suites and Tours, but most guys end up lonely at night because finding a fun reliable Girlfriend Experience Date in a short period of time is very difficult. I know lots of Beautiful Girls with Personality, to go have fun with!”
Right.
A testimonial on medellinsex.com, a website linked to colombiajake.com, praised his “rent-a-date” service:
“While he can set you up for a quick bang in the room (just like at a casa or club), what was the highlight for me was the Rent-a-date. On two different nights (with two different girls), they’d arrive just outside the hotel in a taxi, I’d hop in and we’d go to a party district… You really feel like a man—The Man—when a hot paisa is all over you and laugh and kiss you in public. After a couple of hours of this, back to the hotel room for about an hour of private time.”
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/08/20/what-took-medellin-s-top-american-pimp-so-long-to-get-caught.html