'He had a gun to my head': Woman recounts being re-located to St. Thomas, Ont. to become sex trafficking victim
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After meeting a man online, she thought it was the beginning of a normal relationship.
After meeting a man online, she thought it was the beginning of a normal relationship.
“I thought he was a boyfriend,” says a St. Thomas, Ont. woman who wished to be identified as Christine.
At first he pampered her, but then things started to go south.
“It happens so fast, you don’t realize you are in it until it’s already too late,” says Christine.
She was moved to the north end of St. Thomas and isolated in a house away from anyone she knew.
“He’d say ‘now you have to pay me back for everything I’ve provided for you’,” she said, before telling stories of sex trafficking.
“We are low on cash and this is my friend. More guys and girls started coming in and we ended up with six rooms and a hot tub room in this house that was rented. Guys would be called in and we didn’t have money or food and they were our life support. It was them or death, there were no other options,” she said.
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