The trial has begun in Ottawa for three teenage girls facing a total of 74 charges related to luring other teenage girls for human trafficking and prostitution.
Last June, police in Ottawa and Gatineau arrested and charged the three accused for allegedly using social media to lure more than three other girls, who were between 13 and 17 years old, to a home at a Walkley Road community housing project in southeast Ottawa.
Police said there were only three victims but Ken Hall, lawyer for one of the 15-year-old girls, confirmed on Monday there are more than the three alleged victims. He wouldn't say how many.
Ken Hall, lawyer for one of the accused 15-year-old girls, said there are 39 charges laid against the three accused. (Judy Trinh/CBC) That is also where one of the accused lived, neighbours said.
The victims were allegedly invited online to a physical location where they were confined and, in at least one case, drugged.
Two of the accused girls were 15 and the third was 16 at the time of their arrests, police said.
Two of the girls have been in Ottawa's juvenile detention centre since they were arrested. The three accused, each represented by a different lawyer, are expected to testify at the trial.
One "john," who is facing a charge of sexual assault related to the prostitution ring, is also expected to testify.
Neither the victims nor the accused can be named due to provisions of the Youth Criminal Justice Act.
3 separate incidents, police say
The 74 charges include human trafficking, procuring for prostitution, abduction, forcible confinement, robbery, sexual assault, assault, uttering threats and printing and publishing child pornography.
They are related to three separate incidents: one between May 16 and 19, 2012, another on May 30 and a third on June 3.
Police have said they don't believe the accused girls had any guidance from an adult.
The trial is expected to last about four weeks.
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