A traveling sex trafficking roundtable has made a stop in Northern Ontario.
Conservative MPP for Haliburton-Kawartha Lakes-Brock Laurie Scott met with Timmins police, victim services, women’s shelter and child and family services representatives to discuss the rising numbers of sex trafficking crimes in the province.
Scott says 65 per cent of Canada’s cases are in Ontario with 90 per cent being girls born in Canada that are being exploited.
She says these girls are being lured over the internet, in schools and at malls and the province needs to stop this with proper education.
Scott says you also have to train police services to properly deal with the situation as it arises.
Scott says she wants to work with local level boards and the province to help stop the essential ghost crime.
