Downtown cops were informed of a 15-year-old girl who was forced into prostitution before raiding a small motel on The Queensway, west of Kipling Ave., just before 6 a.m. Sunday, Toronto Police Staff-Sgt. Deb Abbott said.I dunno, your honour... how about we take some of that taxpayer loot... and maybe invest it here.
During the raid, police found two men — Dwayne Powell, 26, of Ontario, and Tarik Foster, 26, of Bermuda — along with two other “young girls in need of protection,” a police news release said this afternoon.
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RELATED: It could always be worse... I suppose
Paging Nelson Mandela...
"If they have a gun, they'll shoot you, and if they don't, they will take some fire and put it on top of you," said Mr. Cosa, a 32-year-old bricklayer.*
Just down the road, a mob set another Mozambican on fire here yesterday morning, and laughed while he burned to death. They burned another immigrant alive the day before.
The attacks have overstretched South Africa's police force, which was already struggling to respond to one of the world's highest rates of violent crime.
And the government of President Thabo Mbeki has done little to quell the crisis.
