Investigators have arrested four individuals following an investigation into the alleged trafficking and sexual exploitation of several young girls across the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), Peel Regional Police said.<\/p>\n
Police say the probe began in January 2024 after officers received information that multiple female victims \u2014 between 11 and 14 years old \u2014 were being trafficked throughout the region. <\/p>\n
According to investigators, the suspects allegedly used coercion, manipulation and threats of physical violence to control the victims while profiting from their exploitation in the sex trade.<\/p>\n
Three adults have been identified as Mohamad Omar Al-Saleh, 21, of Toronto, Mustafa Abdo, 22, of Toronto and Yousif Al-Gburi, 20, of Mississauga. A fourth accused \u2014 a 15-year-old \u2014 has also been charged. Their identity is protected under the Youth Criminal Justice Act (YCJA).<\/p>\n
The charges laid against the three identified adults include procuring a person under 18 (three counts), receiving a benefit resulting from trafficking in persons (two counts), material benefit from sexual services provided by a person under 18 (two counts), exercising control, direction or influence (three counts) and trafficking in persons under 18 (two counts).<\/p>\n
The youth has been charged with obtaining sexual services for consideration \u2014 person under 18, sexual assault \u2014 female under 16 and sexual interference.<\/p>\n
Police say the investigation remains active and believe there may be additional victims who have not yet come forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Investigators have arrested four individuals following an investigation into the alleged trafficking and sexual exploitation of several young…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":497649,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194297],"tags":[49,48,55405],"class_list":["post-497648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mississauga","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mississauga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/497649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}