The appealed judgment infers the existence of a condition of continuous subjection of the victims due to their being minors, away from their families, placed in a precarious living facility in a foreign Country, deprived of their documents and forced with violence to commit crimes; beyond this natural situation of inferiority and necessity, typical of a minor separated by their family, other elements make the situation even more oppressive. In this scenario, it is logic to infer the basic elements of the exploitation and of the use of the Victims as they belonged to the perpetrator; thus, the crime has been committed.
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To commit this crime, the personal freedom does not need to be completely denied. It is possible to consider a conduct as “keeping in slavery” when there is a substantial reduction of a person’s ability of self-determination, so that the condition of subjection (required for this crime) is satisfied.