The alleged victims, between 15 and 33 years old, were recruited from dance clubs, schools and group homes in Nova Scotia, Ontario, Alberta and Edmonton. The pimps befriended unsuspecting victims online using Facebook and Instagram.
“The pimps would romance the victims by showering them with attention and gifts in order to create a boyfriend-girlfriend relationship,” she said, adding that they “would slowly manipulate the victims into thinking prostitution
was glamorous and lucrative.
Those arrested are Toronto residents Marcus Cumsille, 21; Joel Edwards, 22; Tyronne Matthews, 20; Felix Funes Vasquez, 19; Shane Hendry, 18; Symisha Murray, 19; Abdulwahab Sheikh, 18; Keron Christie, 32, and Chanelle Espinosa, 20 and Levi Alexander, 19 who later turned himself in.
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