13 January 2008

Toronto's new entrepreneurs

Crime sure isn't what it used to be...
Her husband faces charges of conspiracy to commit human trafficking, trafficking in persons, receiving benefit from trafficking in persons, withholding documents, exploitation, procuring a person to become a prostitute, living off the avails of prostitution, forcible confinement, exercising control and threatening bodily harm.
This doesn't exactly sound like "victimless crime" to me.
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the migration of "young Russian women and young Eastern European women" has become a "very common" market for human traffickers to pool from, Bertone said.
And how exactly do guys like this... manage to get into the country in the first place?

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