Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Canada
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.
Location
Canada · Edmonton, Alberta, Canada · 2009 (location generalized to protect survivors)
Response & 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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