Toronto police say they have arrested a man accused of recruiting a 21-year-old woman into the sex trade and trafficking her throughout the Greater Toronto Area and southwestern Ontario.
According to police, in May 2024, the service launched an investigation into a report of human trafficking between 2019 and 2020.“Through a combination of physical violence, manipulation, deception, coercion, and threats of violence, the woman was controlled and exploited in the sex trade,” police said in a news release issued Wednesday.A suspect, identified by police as Abubakar Omar Sharif, a 37-year-old Toronto resident, was subsequently arrested.
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