Four People Arrested in GTA (Canada) Human Trafficking Investigation Involving Girls Ranging from 11 to 14 Years Old, By Laura Sebben
Three men and one youth have been arrested following a two-year investigation into human trafficking across the Greater Toronto Area (GTA).
In a release on Monday, Peel police said in January 2024, investigators with their Vice and Human Trafficking Unit began looking into allegations that several young female victims, ages 11 to 14 years old, were being trafficked and exploited in the sex-trade throughout the GTA.
It is alleged the suspects used "coercion, manipulation and threats of physical violence to maintain control and influence over the victims, while financially benefiting from their exploitation," police said.
Mohamad Omar Al-Saleh, 21, from Toronto; Mustafa Abdo, 22, from Toronto; and Yousif Al-Gburi, 20, from Mississauga have all been arrested and charged with obtaining sexual services for consideration – person under 18 years, sexual assault – female under 16 years, and sexual interference.
Police add that a youth, 15, who cannot be identified under the provisions of the Youth Criminal Justice Act, was also arrested in connection with the investigation.
The youth was charged with multiple counts each of procuring – person under 18 years, receiving benefit resulting from trafficking in persons, material benefit from the sexual services provided by a person under 18 years, exercise control, direction or influence, and trafficking in persons under 18 years.
Investigators believe there may be additional victims …
The mother of one of the Nottingham attack victims has expressed her fury at the failings of Nottinghamshire Police as the inquiry enters its fourth day.
Speaking to GB News, the mother of victim Barnaby Webber, Emma, declared the force is "abhorrent", and every day of the inquiry so far has been "shocking, appalling, horrifying".
This week, the inquiry has uncovered that the Nottingham triple killer was free to carry out his killing spree after mental health workers feared detaining him would be "racist".
The families of the victims heard that it was decided to release him into the community after considering "research that shows over-representation of young black males in detention."
Telling GB News of the latest from the inquiry, Mrs Webber told National Reporter Charlie Peters: "We're only on day four, and every day has been shocking, appalling and horrifying, and it didn't change again today.
"We heard from two early victims of his, who were obviously very brave to give their stories today and they survived with their lives didn't they, but this was is in 2020."
After hearing how one of the victims was almost paralysed after being forced to flee Calocane by jumping out of a 12ft window, Mrs Webber said the authorities "didn't do their job properly" in protecting those two early victims.
She stated: "We saw with who was at the time PC Eustace, now an inspector, basically my interpretation is she admitted they didn't do their job properly, they didn't apply their policies properly.
This is simply more proof that the two tier system, no matter how much they deny it, is entrenched in our system and nurtured by the State. Our so called ruling elite need to go, all of them. They cannot be trusted, they are deeply biased and completely incompetent.
"They didn't put his name in less than 24 hours later. Had they done it, they would have seen what he had been doing at the very same premises.
"This is somebody that was taken to hospital because he was seeing demons and hearing demons.
"The first witness this morning said that he appeared intoxicated or potentially on drugs, and the police have noted that in their records."
Mrs Webber fumed: "What is going on here? Nottinghamshire Police, you're an abhorrent force, and let's wait to see what you say this afternoon."
Recalling the information heard about Nottingham University's role in "protecting" Calocane during his studies, Mrs Webber argued that they "neglected" the students of the university and the wider community.
She told GB News: "This is on the back of yesterday's appalling behaviour from Nottingham University and their lack of ability to accept any form of responsibility or accountability that they could have done more.
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Five women who were exploited by grooming gangs in Rotherham as children say they were also abused by police officers in the town at the time.
One says she was raped from the age of 12 by a serving South Yorkshire Police (SYP) officer in a marked police car. He would threaten to hand her back to the gang if she did not comply, she says.
"In a world where you were being abused so much, being raped once [by a police officer] was a lot easier than multiple rapes [by the gang] and I think he knew that," she tells the BBC.
We have seen written accounts from these women, plus testimony from 25 other victims of grooming gangs, with some of those women saying that corrupt police officers worked alongside the gangs or failed to act on child sexual exploitation.
At least 1,400 children were abused by men in Rotherham between 1997 and 2013 - the landmark report from Prof Alexis Jay found in 2014.
"From the evidence we read and heard, the majority of victims identified their perpetrators as being of Pakistani heritage," Prof Jay told us.
A new criminal investigation into the involvement of police officers in the Rotherham grooming scandal is now being led by SYP's major crime unit, under the direction of the police watchdog.
