A Toronto man faces numerous human trafficking, assault and child pornography charges after police say two underage girls were taken from their homes in different parts of Ontario and put to work in the sex trade in Mississauga and Brampton.
Ontario Provincial Police said the multi-jurisdictional investigation, dubbed Project Shrewsbury, began in August when Greater Sudbury Police and Kingston Police received information that a man had recruited and transported two girls under the age of 18 from their homes for the purpose of sex trafficking.
“The two victims were trafficked from the Sudbury and Kingston areas to Mississauga and Brampton and other locations in the Greater Toronto Area,” an OPP spokesperson said in an email to INsauga.com.
OPP took the lead in the investigation “due to the human trafficking element” involved and investigators subsequently determined the alleged offences against the young girls took place in Peel and elsewhere in the …