Stopping this trafficking is no easy matter.
Enforcement in this trafficking hub compared unfavourably with other Amazon regions.
"Many of them say we should not stop this trafficking, because their daughters are making money," she said.
The investigation has been led by a counter-trafficking organisation, Freeland, which is based in Bangkok and has previously exposed key players in this trafficking network.
This trafficking of youngsters is still happening, even though the soccer and immigration authorities have long been asked to curb the soccer import and export trade.
This trafficking, in other words, has nothing to do with consenting adults and everything to do with rape and child abuse.
"Anything that helps save lives in the eastern Med and helps disrupt criminals behind this trafficking is extremely welcome and we will be looking at that proposal very seriously," he said.
Throughout the 1990s, damning evidence of this trafficking kept surfacing, often brought in by human rights investigators, aid workers and journalists committed to identifying and exposing the private arms traffickers even in the face of lawsuits and threats.
