Human Trafficking Bust in Edmonton

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http://www.edmontonjournal.com/news/Edmonton+human+trafficking+charges/1979578/story.html

Uh oh... while my heart goes out to the girls who were victimized, this can't be good news for the MPs who treat their girls fairly. Isn't this what decimated the Calgary massage scene a few years ago?

EDMONTON — Three people face charges in Edmonton in connection with Western Canada’s first alleged case of human trafficking.

Edmonton police say three women, one from Beijing and two from Fiji, believed to be the victims were safely removed from an Edmonton business earlier this month after they received a tip about a suspected bawdy house.

Acting with the Canada Border Services Agency and RCMP, police conducted an early-morning search Sept. 5 of Sachi Professional Massage and Spa at 175th Street and 100th Avenue, and an apartment on 69th Avenue and 199th Street of a person connected to the business.

A man and a woman were arrested leaving the business premises, and four women inside were arrested. It’s believed that three of those women, who range in age from 21 to 41, were victims of human trafficking.

“The results were better than we could have hoped,” Edmonton Police Service Insp. Danielle Campbell said at a news conference at Edmonton police headquarters on Thursday. “As a result of these search warrants, there were three women who were rescued from what I believe is modern-day slavery.”

Garry Drummond, a human trafficking awareness co-ordinator with the RCMP, said that the Edmonton charges are the first human trafficking charges to be laid in Western Canada. There have been at least three convictions in Ontario and one in Quebec. “I’m kind of stoked that EPS has the very first charges,” said Drummond. “It’s historic.”

Most people don’t realize human trafficking is going on in Canada and Edmonton. They are just not seeing it, he said.

EPS Det. Dave Schening said the three woman were cheerful but scared when they were rescued. “There was a language barrier,” he said. “They had to bring in an interpreter to assure them they were victims and not in trouble.”

They came to work in the massage industry having answered ads in foreign countries which promised good money, he said.

“They ate, drank and slept in the room they worked in,” he said, alleging they were expected to perform sexual acts 24 hours a day, seven days a week for several weeks.

Their identification documents were taken from them and although they were told they were free to leave, they were also threatened their families would be told what they were doing there so that kept them from leaving, he said.

They come from traditional families. “This is the worse thing that could happen to them,” Schening said.

Mei Fang Chen, 33, and Xiu Zheng Chen, 32, are both charged with trafficking persons, and, along with Qui Wang, 41, are also charged with living on the avails of prostitution, exercising control, direction or influence over a person for the purposes of prostitution, keeping a common bawdy house and possession of proceeds of crime over $5,000.

They are scheduled to appear in court Sept. 21.
 

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Who tipped of the police and helped to rescue these ladies??

Take a look at the news report video on the CTV website. Look closely at some of the video frames - "Courtesy of Class Canada" .

http://watch.ctv.ca/news/clip212149#clip212149

This is the same group that was getting ripped in here a few months back for posting videos of what goes on inside massage parlours including Sachi Spa.

http://www.classcanada.com/Sex_Trade.htm

Was it perhaps because of these videos posted by Class Canada that the police started an investigation and ended up rescuing those ladies? ;)
 
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