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Sex Trafficking in Edmonton, Alberta (2009)

A sex trafficking case from 2009 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

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Documented on the original SlaveryMap (2008–2016). We don’t have a verifiable source on file yet. Know one?

What happened

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.

Response and intervention

5 young women were brought into Canada on Vistor's Visas. The girls were forces to work as masseuses and perform sexual acts for extra monies paid to their owner. The arrests served to free them from massage parlour / bawdy house. Canada Immigration deported the girls after housing them safely. The five girls gladly returned to their home country.

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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.

Needs a sourceArchive 2008–2016

Sex Trafficking2007

Edmonton, Canada, 2007

Canada CA

Tonya made a decision to quit cocaine on her own. We are not sure whether the presence of caring friends at church which she attended or simply a growing awareness through the new associations she was making led her to quit. She says she wanted to do what God wanted her to do. She has said that she wants to become an Orthodox Christian. Tonya has fetal alcohol syndrome with some brain damage. He ability to follow through is limited.

Needs a sourceArchive 2008–2016