Sex TraffickingArchive 2008–2016

Sex Trafficking in Osoyoos, British Columbia (2006)

A sex trafficking case from 2006 in Osoyoos, British Columbia, Canada.

This page describes exploitation and abuse. Need to report something? How to report →

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

What happened

In June 2006 the RCMP and US Border Patrol intercepted 8 female and 2 male Korean nationals attempting to walk across the border into the US. Several of the women indicated during preliminary questioning that they had to pay a debt for their crossing once they reached their destination. Some also mentioned that they were going to work in the US in jobs such as waitressing; however, there was evidence that they were destined to be forced to provide sexual services at massage parlours.

Response and intervention

Law enforcement intercepted the group as they were attempting to cross the border. Preliminary interviews were held, but nothing else is known. United States-Canada Bi-National Assessment of Trafficking in Persons, page 21.

Nearby cases

All 41 in Canada →

Sex Trafficking2003

Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, 2003

Canada CA

a 59 yrs old man from Burnaby, BC, Canada, The charges stem from acts between December 1998 and March 2002. Mr. Klassen initially faced trial on 35 counts but pleaded guilty in May to 15 counts involving girls in Cambodia and Colombia, as well as the child pornography charge. Klassen, the father of three lived in Colombia for 20 years before returning to Canada. His lawyers argued he didn't travel there for sex, but became complacent to the age of girls in a place that doesn't have the same stringent laws. Mr. Klassen's lawyers had argued the Burnaby man was merely a “customer” of willing participants after he pleaded guilty to 14 offences of sexual interference and one count of importing child pornography

1 sourceArchive 2008–2016

Sex Trafficking2010

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 2010

Canada CA

WaiChi (Michael) Ng, Vancouver. Accused of trafficking 2 Chinese women into sex trade. Was acquitted on trafficking charge, sentenced on prostitution-related charges. Sentenced to 9 months for two counts of falsifying immigration documents and extra 6 months for keeping bawdy house and two counts procuring person to have illicit sexual intercourse.

Needs a sourceArchive 2008–2016

Sex Trafficking2005

Vancouver Downtown Eastside, Canada, 2005

Canada CA

"In 2005 Michael Ng was the first person to be arrested and charged under Canada’s human trafficking laws after two Chinese women escaped from his massage parlour in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside and called the police claiming they had been brought from China and forced into prostitution. One of the women testified that she worked from 11:00am to 2:00am in order to meet her financial obligations to Ng. “In one year and five months I [made] him well over $100,000 plus the $50-an-hour he charged customers for a massage”. Ng was cleared of human trafficking, but found guilty of a number of related offences instead, including operating a common bawdy house, helping create false travel documents and procuring a person to have illicit sexual intercourse with another. In April 2008 he was sentenced to 15 months in jail. The Chinese women returned to China at their request, but came back briefly to Canada to assist in Ng’s prosecution." http://www.pssg.gov.bc.ca/octip/identifying.htm

1 sourceArchive 2008–2016