Child Sex Trafficking

• 15-year-old Toronto girl forced to work in sex trade, man charged: police

  Toronto police say a man has been charged after a 15-year-old girl was 'forced to work in the sex trade.'

  Crime

  Apr 18, 2023
  
• London, Ont. man facing multiple charges in child sex trafficking investigation: police

  Police say they began investigating after a woman came forward in February reporting that she had been the victim of assault and sex trafficking from 2015 until 2018.

  Crime

  Mar 1, 2022
  
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• Journey to Justice: How Ontario’s strategy to fight sex trafficking is changing

  While Ontario represented 29 per cent of all violent crime reported in Canada in 2019, the province accounted for over 60 per cent of Canada’s human trafficking cases.

  Canada

  Feb 23, 2022
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• Manitoba appeals court gives harsher sentence in ‘precedent-setting’ sex trafficking case

  The three judges in the case, Holly Beard, Christopher Mainella and Janice leMaistre, said they overturned the 15-month sentence in the hopes of better protecting children.

  Crime

  Dec 15, 2021
• Children for sale: Canada’s youth at the heart of the rising sex trade

  "The majority of victims are not people being brought from other countries into Canada, it's Canadian young women."

  Canada

  Nov 30, 2020
• Sex marketplace Backpage.com seized by U.S. authorities

  U.S. law enforcement agencies have seized the sex marketplace website Backpage.com as part of an enforcement action by the FBI, according to a posting on its website on Friday.

  Crime

  Apr 6, 2018
• Police arrest 104 men in massive multi-year child prostitution investigation in Ontario

  Police have arrested 104 men for attempting to have sex with children forced into prostitution, following a four-year undercover human trafficking investigation in which 85 underage victims were found and 49 pimps charged in York Region since 2012.

  Crime

  Apr 21, 2017
• Police arrest over 100 men in multi-year child prostitution investigation in Ontario

  More than 100 men accused of purchasing prostituted children have been arrested after a multi-year investigation in York Region.

  Crime

  Apr 20, 2017
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• Uber driver in Sacramento helps save 16-year-old girl from sex trafficking ring

  A Sacramento Uber driver is being credited for helping save a 16-year-old girl from child sex trafficking.

  Crime

  Dec 30, 2016