Charges laid after teen taken from Toronto to Hamilton and forced into sex trade.

TORONTO

-- Four suspects are facing numerous charges after a 17-year-old girl was taken from downtown Toronto to Hamilton in December 2018, forced into the sex trade, physically assaulted and deprived of food and sleep for four days. According to investigators with the Toronto Police Service, a girl met two men while in the area of Yonge Street and Dundas Street East on Dec. 30, 2018.

The two men befriended the teenage girl before giving her drugs and alcohol, officers said. The girl was then taken to an address in Hamilton by the two men. In Hamilton, the two men and another man allegedly sexually assaulted the girl.

The 17-year-old was then introduced to a woman, police said, and then she was forced into the sex trade. At the time, photographs of the girl “in various stages of undress” were taken and posted online as advertisements for sexual services.

“The first man controlled all the communications with the customers via text messages or phone calls, and the girl was told which sexual services she was to provide,” investigators said in a news release issued on Tuesday morning.

“The first man made the girl provide sexual services to numerous clients that attended the address, as well as to himself, turning all the money over to him.” Over the course of four days, police said, the girl was “forced to ingest a quantity of drugs, deprived of food and sleep, and was physically assaulted.”

The teenager was able to escape and got in contact with police on Jan. 3, 2019.

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Kayla Goodfield Multi-Platform Writer, CTV News Toronto

Published Tuesday, November 26, 2019 11:46AM EST 

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Epstein legacies still running wild?

There may be more victims

A Mississauga man is facing a number of charges following a human trafficking investigation in the GTA and Peel Region. Police said that they launched an investigation in November after a woman was exploited in the sex trade over a three year period.

In a news release issued Wednesday, police said that Damian Campbell, 38, has been charged with trafficking persons, receiving benefit as a result from trafficking persons and advertising sexual services, as well as a number of other charges. Investigators said they believe that there may be more victims involved in the incident and are asking them to come forward.

Anyone with information related to the incident is being asked to contact police directly or anonymously through Crime Stoppers.

Mississauga man facing several charges in GTA, Peel Region human trafficking investigation

Phil Tsekouras
Published Wednesday, December 4, 2019 5:36PM EST
https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/mississauga-man-facing-several-charges-in-gta-peel-region-human-trafficking-investigation-1.4715633