A Hamilton man and Toronto woman are facing charges after they allegedly advertised the sexual services of two teen girls online, and then took the money earned during the illicit meet-ups.<\/p>\n
The Human Trafficking Unit began investigating the duo in June, 2025. <\/p>\n
\u201cThrough a combination of deception, coercion and control, the accused trafficked 14-year-old and 17-year-old female victims,\u201d a police release alleges. <\/p>\n
Investigators say the money earned by the victims was handed over to the accused and was kept by them.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe victims had their on-line ads for sexual services created and administered by the accused; this included the taking of sexualized pictures,\u201d the release adds, saying the accused drove the victims to various hotels to meet with clients who paid for sexual services. <\/p>\n
On Thursday, August 14, 2025, the two suspects were arrested. <\/p>\n
Tyrique Harmer, 22, and Maria Toth-Taddeo, 21, both face a barrage of human trafficking and child pornography charges. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Hamilton man and Toronto woman are facing charges after they allegedly advertised the sexual services of two…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73003,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-73002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73002","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=73002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}