Posted on 12/19/2002 4:55:27 AM PST by chance33_98
Teens forced into weird sex
Gang preyed on young girls
By CP
QUEBEC -- Young girls were recruited at high schools, shopping malls, arcades and hip-hop parties to work as prostitutes and fulfil their customers' fantasies with unusual sexual acts, police said yesterday.
With a thriving underground market for sex with minors, at least 17 girls were recruited by the local Wolf Pack street gang, linked with the Hells Angels biker gang and criminals in Toronto and Montreal, police said.
Police arrested 20 people, including 11 clients, Capt. Andre Fillion told a news conference.
The customers included prominent local businessmen, a local radio host and a former organizer of Quebec City's winter carnival, who paid up to $500 for sexual acts, Fillion said.
"To be this lucrative, the business needed a specific demand from clients who demanded this type of young girl," Fillion said.
"(They wanted) minors who were ready to perform sexual acts that were out of the ordinary and that surpass the imagination."
Fillion would not say what acts the girls allegedly performed during the two years the ring was in operation.
Lt.-Det. Sylvain Gagne said when the girls turned 18 they were moved out of the prostitution ring and often became strippers.
"They wouldn't stay in the ring because that's not what the clients wanted," said Gagne.
"They wanted girls under 18."
The teens earned up to $100,000 a year and all of it often went to their pimps, police said.
None of the girls - aged between 14 and 17 - had criminal records and most came from "good families," Fillion said, adding they came from so-called middle-class families and attended school.
But they often fell in love with their recruiters, who showered them with gifts such as jewels, clothes and money.
Fillion said they were coerced into working as prostitutes.
"Everything is given to them, everything seems easy," Fillion said. "After a week, the teen becomes indoctrinated and desensitized."
Nine of the accused allegedly operated the ring. They face charges ranging from drug-trafficking, sexual assault, battery, theft, and living off the avails of prostitution.
Also, 11 alleged clients were arrested and face charges of paying for sex with minors. They face maximum five-year prison terms, police said.
However, some clients will likely face other charges - including battery, police said.
"These girls were often assaulted, often humiliated," said Gagne.
Police have also encouraged other teenage girls who may be involved to come forward.
Quebec City investigators also raided a number of residences and at least one business with alleged ties to the ring.
Police seized a number of luxury cars in which they suspect sexual acts took place.
Eleven alleged clients were served with a summons to appear in court next February.
"...out of the ordinary and that surpass the imagination."
There is something so British about the Canadian style of speaking.
This says something about the scope of the Canadian imagination.
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