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Sex Trafficking in Canada (2009)

A sex trafficking case from 2009 in Canada, Canada. 1 source on file.

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What happened

Detective Assistant Superintendent Selebatso Mokgosi from Interpol confirmed to the Sunday Standard that a Motswana woman who had been trafficked to work in a Canadian brothel was recently arrested in Canada without work and resident permits. Detective Assistant Superintendent Mokgosi would not disclose details on the case, saying, “It is too early to reveal the identity of the suspect.”

Response and intervention

unknown what the result of this case was. Assumed that the Batswana woman was deported, unlikely that she received any aftercare as she was not treated as a trafficking victim but rather as a perpetrator. Here is the link for the article in which I found the case. The details are extremely vague but I found it relevant to post in light of the fact that Botswana's human trafficking situation has remained very much under the radar but this instance shows that it is indeed happening. http://sundaystandard.info/news/news_item.php?NewsID=4775&GroupID=1

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Sex Trafficking2009

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, 2009

Canada CA

Police noticed and followed activity of young women in the bawdy house. Their English language skills were weak. Edmonton Police Services were not able to gain many details about the owners / mangers of the massage parlour. A Canada Immigration Officer entered the premises, asked the young women for immigration status. No visas were on them. The girls were arrested.

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Sex Trafficking2009

Edmonton, Canada, 2009

Canada CA

atlest three victims were found. One form Beijing and two from Fiji, all three had their identifaction papers taken from them and forced to eat, sleep, and work in the same location 24 hours a day. They all had responded to ads for a jod in massage.

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Sex Trafficking2009

Edmonton, Canada, 2009

Canada CA

Undercover police officer acted as a 19 year old girl whom Juneja attempted to recruit into his brothel Four sex workers testified against Juneja Found guilty of 7 out of 8 charges on April 17, 1009 (two counts of keeping a common bawdy house and three counts of living on the avails of prostitution, two counts related to procuring women to become prostitutes. One count of procuring a woman to become a prostitute was dismissed because there was not enough evidence against Juneja) Juneja's lawyer is applying for a stay relating to that charge on the basis that it involved entrapment. The judge will hear those arguments on May 28. In September, a court upheld Alberta Transportation's decision to suspend Juneja's licence to operate the Alberta Defensive Driving School.

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