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Three Teen Girls Begin Trial for Human Trafficking Charges
Three Teen Girls Begin Trial for Human Trafficking Charges
Three teenaged girls from Ottawa accused of running a prostitution ring have just begun to stand trial; they've all pleaded not guilty to all charges. The young women, two of whom were fifteen and one of whom was sixteen at the time of their arrest, allegedly committed a slew of unimaginable crimes: it took nearly twenty minutes to read all seventy-four individual charges, which included human trafficking, abduction, forcible confinement, robbery, sexual assault, assault, and printing and publishing child pornography. So far, seven victims have come forward. The youngest was thirteen.
The accused allegedly used social media to lure their victims to an apartment in a social housing complex, according to evidence obtained from the girls' phones and computers. Once the victims arrived, they would strip them, steal their belongings, and then photograph them, beating them if they didn't comply. The accused would then force them, through threats or physical coercion, to meet with johns. At least two of the victims were raped by johns (some men apparently sent the victims home after realizing they were being prostituted against their will).
Some of the girls report being forced or encouraged to drink alcohol and smoke marijuana — a victim, who was fourteen at the time of her abduction, recalls being stripped and photographed after she passed out drunk and high in a bathtub, while her fifteen-year-old friend was taken into the basement and forced to pose nude. According to reports, the defendants beat the fifteen-year-old so badly that her injuries were still visible in police photographs taken weeks later.
That night, one of the alleged ringleaders tweeted: "Ain't no problem like a hoe problem. I've got hoe problemssss." In an earlier tweet, she bragged that she was the "female bill gates."
http://jezebel.com/three-teen-girls-begin-trial-for-human-trafficking-char-472172863
Three teenaged girls from Ottawa accused of running a prostitution ring have just begun to stand trial; they've all pleaded not guilty to all charges. The young women, two of whom were fifteen and one of whom was sixteen at the time of their arrest, allegedly committed a slew of unimaginable crimes: it took nearly twenty minutes to read all seventy-four individual charges, which included human trafficking, abduction, forcible confinement, robbery, sexual assault, assault, and printing and publishing child pornography. So far, seven victims have come forward. The youngest was thirteen.
The accused allegedly used social media to lure their victims to an apartment in a social housing complex, according to evidence obtained from the girls' phones and computers. Once the victims arrived, they would strip them, steal their belongings, and then photograph them, beating them if they didn't comply. The accused would then force them, through threats or physical coercion, to meet with johns. At least two of the victims were raped by johns (some men apparently sent the victims home after realizing they were being prostituted against their will).
Some of the girls report being forced or encouraged to drink alcohol and smoke marijuana — a victim, who was fourteen at the time of her abduction, recalls being stripped and photographed after she passed out drunk and high in a bathtub, while her fifteen-year-old friend was taken into the basement and forced to pose nude. According to reports, the defendants beat the fifteen-year-old so badly that her injuries were still visible in police photographs taken weeks later.
That night, one of the alleged ringleaders tweeted: "Ain't no problem like a hoe problem. I've got hoe problemssss." In an earlier tweet, she bragged that she was the "female bill gates."
http://jezebel.com/three-teen-girls-begin-trial-for-human-trafficking-char-472172863
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