CALGARY – Police have laid charges against a Calgary woman after she allegedly forced her roommate into the sex trade.
The victim came to Calgary in October 2013 for a job, and met the accused while searching for a roommate.
After a short time living together, it’s alleged Amanda Kathleen McGee began slipping drugs into the alcoholic beverages the two were consuming together – before taking inappropriate photos of the victim.
Mcgee is accused of later using those photos to extort the victim into becoming a sex-trade worker.
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During their two-month long investigation, police say another woman came forward alleging she had been the victim of voyeurism and extortion at the hands of McGee.
Police have charged McGee, 31, with nine offences including:
- trafficking in persons
- administering a noxious substance to aggrieve or annoy
- live on the avails of prostitution
- keeper of a common bawdy house
- sexual assault with a weapon
- forcible confinement
- procure a person to become a prostitute
- extortion
- voyeurism
McGee is scheduled to appear in court on Tuesday, April 15, 2014.
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