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ESCAPING THE TRAP: Preying on the vulnerable from homeless girls to the girl next door MIKE ADLER AnD FAnnIE SUnSHInE newsroom@insidetoronto.com Girls are growing up online, and many in Greater Toronto spend as much time with social media as they do in school, chatting, liking, posting.

They don’t know pimps are watching.

Predatory men and boys are waiting not just at the shopping mall, but on Instagram, Snapchat, free dating sites, anywhere they can catch a girl at the right moment.

Experts say that could be after she argues with her parents, or expresses vulnerability about her looks.

“They’ll tell her how smart she is, how pretty she is, that she’s a grown-up who can make her own decisions and doesn’t have to listen to her parents,” says Michele Anderson, human trafficking advocate for Toronto’s Covenant House.

Sixteen is a typical age, but girls as young as 12 are targets.

“They tell their life stories online,” saying things like, “I look fat today,” said Det.-Sgt. Nunzio Tramontozzi, head of the Toronto Police human trafficking team.

Trolling, traffickers start out by assuring the girl, “You’re not, you look great,” he said.

“Within days, they hook them.”

Online luring is one reason sex trafficking happens around Greater Toronto - a hub for this type of crime through which victims are moved quickly from hotel to hotel not just to homeless girls, but to the girl next door.

If a child looks for validation or acceptance in an online space, and someone offers it, “that’s an adrenaline rush, that’s dopamine,” said Debbie Gordon, director of kidsmediacentre at Centennial College.

Online culture puts pressure on children to get approval for posts, or to build up followers, without really caring who those followers are, she said.

Some may say, “If I show more, take more risks, the next selfie will get more likes,” added Gordon. “You see so many kids taking such incredible risks.”

A trafficker will suggest meeting for dinner or coffee, and will shower a girl with expensive designer purses or cell phones, said Anderson.

They’ll then head to a hotel, where the girl is introduced to some of the trafficker’s friends, and she’s forced to have sex with them in exchange for the gifts she received.

“They’ll say, ‘What, you think this is all free?’”

Anderson said.

If the girl resists, blackmail ensues. Or the trafficker gets aggressive and abusive.

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Victims are typically allowed home at night, but the threat of physical violence always looms if they dare tell anyone what’s happening, Anderson said.

In Olivia’s case, the trafficker was someone she knew from high school, entering her life when she was about 20, struggling with her mental health and severely low self-esteem.

There was a honeymoon phase where she felt special and loved. Olivia (not her real name) began living with the trafficker, feeling like she hit the jackpot.

“He played on those vulnerabilities, knowing I wanted this relationship to be my forever.”

Olivia worked as his girl for two years, in hotel rooms from Burlington and Oakville to Markham, Richmond Hill, and downtown Toronto.

“To some degree, the industry itself met a lot of my needs. Now I felt good at something. I felt desired.”

Leaving was difficult. She was incredibly scared for her reputation, and her trafficker threatened to send her sex ads to people she cared about.

He played on those vulnerabilities, knowing I wanted this relationship to be my forever.”

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One day, a police officer posed as a John, checking Olivia’s identification to see if she was underage. She wasn’t, and wasn’t too receptive to his questions, but kept his card.

It was six months before she called, hoping to escape and rebuild her life.

Some trafficked women and girls finally, literally run for their lives. Others are held in place by ingrained feelings of love, dependence or fear.

Luring is sometimes done by women, most often by friends who are victims themselves.

Some are told they could be “partners” with their trafficker if they recruit replacements.

Recruiting is a means of self-preservation, a chance to have sex with fewer people, said Carly Kalish, a therapist for the Scarborough-based East Metro Youth Services.

“The illusion of being their partner is a big part of why you stay, but it’s never actually the case,” she said.

NEXT: How Ontario’s new anti-trafficking strategy could convict more traffickers and offer crucial support to more survivors.

This is some of the language and words used which could indicate a girl is trapped in “The Game” (prostitution).

Sources: East Metro Youth Services, kidsmediacentre, Toronto police detective

MORE ONLINE Karly’s story: From being homeless and a drug addict who engaged in the sex trade as a teenager, Karly found a way out and is now giving hope as a peer counselor to women and girls who survived sex trafficking or are still in the sex trade. (bit.ly/karlystory) Signs a girl is being lured: Experts say sex trafficking masks itself as a typical relationship for a girl. Parents and friends can spot these and other warning signs a girl is in a dangerous relationship. (bit.ly/luringsigns)

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on’t talk to strangers is a common piece of advice parents give to their children.

Warning your kids to not go with someone to find their ‘lost’ puppy or enter a vehicle with mommy’s ‘friend’ because she’s late picking them up is part of parents’ basic arsenal of street proofing.

This isn’t new.

What’s new are the strangers lurking behind fake profiles on social media – canvassing the vulnerable for a life in the sex trade.

This week, Metroland Media Toronto is publishing the first of two parts on human trafficking of young girls.

Our reporters found in their research that predatory men and boys are spying on Instagram and Snapchat – any place they can find a girl who is down after a fight with her parents, a blow out with her boyfriend, ostracized by her friends or feeling or unaccomplished in OuR ViEW unpretty an online world where image, or the optics of having it all, is paraTalk to kids mount. in human trafficking about human tellExperts Metroland Media Toronto that girls around 16 years old are trafficking the main targets, but some as young as 12 have been lured into the sex trade.

“They tell their life stories online,” saying things like, “I look fat today,” said Det.-Sgt. Nunzio Tramontozzi, head of the Toronto Police Service’s human trafficking team.

Trolling, traffickers start out by assuring the girl, “You’re not, you look great,” he said. “Within days, they hook them.”

If a child gets the validation and acceptance they seek online it’s like a ‘dopamine’ hit experts say, the ‘adrenaline rush’ they need to feel valued.

You’ll read some troubling stories in this feature.

Stories of young girls being passed around from man to man, shuttled between hotel to hotel.

It’s important to trust our children enough to do the right thing online. But when the young mind is growing and emotions and hormonal changes are unbalanced, a kind word or a sweet gesture from the wrong guy at the right time is all it takes for the unthinkable to happen. We hope these stories educate and inform you of the dangers that are present.

Speak to your children. Open the discussion about human trafficking no matter how uncomfortable or awkward. Anything can happen to anyone at anytime.

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Lastman set tone on keeping property taxes low It was only appropriate that as Toronto Council began to debate its budget directions for what could be a very austere 2017, surviving mayors of Toronto’s pre-amalgamation municipalities should be gathered to unveil a display of portraits and a bit of a light history lesson on amalgamation.

Former Toronto mayor Barbara Hall was there along with ex-Etobicoke mayor Doug Holyday.

Former York mayor Frances Nunziata was on hand to officiate, along with East York’s last mayor Michael Prue. The late Frank Faubert of Scarborough was in the picture, and there in memory.

And of course, there was Mel Lastman – North York’s first, last and only mayor; and arguably one of the preeminent co-authors of the financial conundrum that Toronto is facing today.

Lastman was North York’s favourite son, a successful municipal politician whose boosterish approach

david nickle the city to governance made his re-election in North York a certainty and made him a good bet to win the mayoralty in the first election of amalgamated Toronto.

It was a good bet but by no means a sure thing, and to nail it down, Lastman relied on two things: the love of his North York constituents, and a promise to freeze property taxes for three years straight.

This, he did for the first three costly years of amalgamated Toronto. And they set a standard – impossible to meet, but always there – of very low property tax increases. Because of that, revenue has never quite kept up with demand.

On Tuesday, Lastman offered a reminder of his original pitch.“People don’t understand. Take a look at the price of food: you go in to buy apples, you buy a

lettuce, a celery. Six bucks, eight bucks. It’s crazy. Then you come along the last thing in the line, the taxes.

You increase taxes? Where the hell will they get the money?”

Other mayors have put this more gracefully, but this is the blunt narrative that leads us to Toronto’s financial problems today.

Upstairs, Lastman’s successors spent the day grappling with the need for a 2.6 per cent cut to all programs in order to write a budget that’s sustainable. Property taxes have actually been shrinking over the years, and services have become more expensive.

Under questioning from councillors, senior staff acknowledged that services are going to be constrained and necessary growth in services in, for example, poverty reduction, will be nearly impossible. The tricks that saved Lastman and his successors – deferring expenses through what turned out to be bad

leasing deals, or ballooning revenue from our everbubbling land transfer tax, rescues from more sympathetic provincial governments – won’t be available for long.

So that means service cuts in the short term, and in the long term? Maybe revenue tools.

But Lastman wasn’t so sure about those. A little alcohol tax, some tobacco tax… maybe hotels would be fine.

“But if they start hitting on other taxes they’re in trouble, because the people can’t afford them and they’re going to get fed up with politicians completely,” warned Lastman.

With words of wisdom like that from amalgamated Toronto’s founding father, it seems pretty clear that we’ve all been in trouble for a very long time.

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Culture Jam - Parade WHEN: 11 a.m. WHERE: Shoppers World Danforth, 3003 Danforth Ave. CONTACT: www.torontoartsfoundation.org COST: Free Presented by Children’s Peace Theatre and Access Alliance Multicultural health and Community Services.

Create work to be displayed in a Community Peace is Possible Parade, which begins from the parking lot of Shoppers World and ends in Taylor Massey Park with a picnic.

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Politics and transit are a bad mix Imagine that today you could take a bus in East York or Riverdale, go to the Donlands subway station, and then get a subway train directly to Union Station.

Or how about getting out to Pearson Airport via a subway going west along Eglinton avenue.

Imagine being able to get to the Scarborough Town Centre by taking the subway that goes along Sheppard Avenue, which would have been 11 years old this year.

All that could have been in place if TTC plan written in the early 1980’s called “Network 2011” had been acted upon. The irony of that the plan that could have been is that was stopped by the very people who had commissioned it – politicians.

When former Mayor Rob Ford cancelled Mayor David Miller’s Transit City plan it was simply another chapter in that same process.

A process that began at the beginning of the 20th Century when a proposal to build the Queen street subway line was defeated in a plebiscite in

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elected they do not want to pay for such projects.

When the NDP were in power under then premier Bob Rae, the Network 2011 plan was actually begun and work had started on the western Eglinton subway line.

But when the Progressive Conservatives under premier Mike Harris were elected in 1995, work on the subway stopped and what had been completed was filled in at the cost of several million dollars.

Instead Harris ordered subway work to start on a subway under Sheppard avenue to the Scarborough Town Centre and for the S c a r b o ro u g h RT t o b e replaced with subway track.

Both of those projects were never completed due to lack of funding. So all Mayor John Tory is promoting today is the continuation of the inefficient and expensive plan summarily implemented by Harris.

joe cooper watchdog 1912. That plebiscite was not over-turned until 1946, when the public finally accepted the idea, but even then the subway didn’t open until 1954.

It took years of political bickering over nickels and dimes, subway routes and deciding which level of government would pay before shovels went into the ground.

However, by 1980 it was clear to the TTC and the province that the age of subways was over as they were too expensive to build and maintain.

By then it had been found that the most cost-effective method of moving large numbers of people was by streetcar on a dedicated right of way, which today has become Light Rail Transport, or LRT. Politicians, thoug, want megaprojects that will impress the voting public at election time. But once

Joe Cooper is a long-time East York resident and community activist. His column appears every Thursday. Contact him at eym@insidetoronto.com

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Presented by the Gerrard In d i a Ba z a a r Bu s i n e s s Improvement Area and cosponsored by TD Bank, the free-of-charge festivities will take place from 11 a.m. to midnight both days.

The festival’s main master of ceremonies is multi-awardwinning Indian stand-up comedian Vasu Primlani, who will also serve as the twoday event’s co-host alongside television personality Randy Persaud.

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also introducing a series of literary arts workshops, which aim to celebrate literary works of the contemporary South Asian community in Toronto and around the world, on Sunday, July 17 at the Toronto Tabla Ensemble, 1386 Gerrard St. E. and the Gerrard Ashdale Library, 1432 Gerrard St. E., from 12:30 to 5:30 p.m.

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the legacy of the Gerrard India Bazaar (Business Improvement Area) that thrives along Gerrard Street and to celebrate and promote South Asian culture and diversity. Our vision is to continue to inspire, educate and captivate audiences; to continue to flourish our “Little India”, whilst captivating an audience and leading us all to unite as Canadian,” said Festival of South Asia director Tushar Unadkat of Mukta Advertising in a release.

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“It’s been a really incredible project to be a part of. (The pop-up project) helped bring a lot of energy and excitement to the area,” said Tina Scherz, who along with Gay Stephenson, was hired to coordinate the initiative.

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Diane Dyson, WoodGreen’s director of research and public policy and the social service agency’s lead on the DECA Pop-Up Project, said WG was happy to get involved in this initiative as it was a chance to support small businesses, while helping revitalize a main street in decline through a community economic development program.

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