© CBC NewsStaff Sgt. John McGetrick called the teen human trafficking case shocking as three girls are accused in the prostitution of three other teenaged girls.
Canada - Police in Gatineau, Que., have arrested the third suspect in a human trafficking case where three teenage girls are accused in the prostitution of three other teenage girls in Ottawa.
The youth, 16, was apprehended Thursday at about 8 p.m. and returned to Ottawa, police say. She appears in an Ottawa courtroom Friday afternoon on charges of human trafficking, procuring for prostitution, forcible confinement, robbery, assault and uttering threats.
The search for the third suspect was made more difficult, police say, because they could not release info about her due to provisions of the Youth Criminal Justice Act. Police had also originally said she was 17 years old.
Police said the three accused allegedly used social media to lure a trio of other girls, who are between 13 and 17 years old, to a home at a Walkley Road community housing project in southeast Ottawa. That is also where the accused live, neighbours say.
3 separate incidents
The teens are then accused of offering the victims to adult men for sex in three alleged incidents:
- Between May 16 to 19
- May 30
- June 3rd
The two other suspects, both 15, were arrested June 8 and 9 and face identical charges. They appeared in court earlier this week.
One 15-year-old was remanded into custody Wednesday until her bail hearing scheduled for Monday.
Teenagers whom CBC News spoke to have said they are more aware of who they associate with on Facebook since the prostitution ring was made public.
"THEY CONTINUE" Hmm. A hint or merely a false note??
"Police also said they believe the victims were drugged in one of the incidents. THEY CONTINUE to say the accused teenage girls acted alone without guidance from an adult."
(MAYBE.... before editing, the article said something like this:
"Despite the claims of the victims that local police and politicians were actively involved in every aspect of the matter,
AND
and despite the fact that we are being ordered by the police NOT allowed to report WHAT those victims are saying, due to the Mayor's office's interpretation of the law, (Mayor Peirre' Vert being among those so accused,
AND despite the fact that each of the victims to abandon the "protections" of of the laws which prevent this press agency from even reporting their statements that the police WERE involved throughout the pimping process, .....)
THEY, (THE POLICE AND AUTHORITIES) "CONTINUE to say the accused teenage girls acted alone without guidance from an adult."
If so, - granted, it's unlikely, but little can surprise an open minded SOTT reader these days - , that has the sound of a reporter with a conscience sliding something by an idiot editor.....if so, God Bless that reporter.
And even if not, it nevertheless, IMHO, rings a painfully false note.
R.C.