Traffickers targeting international Indian students
Posted: Wed 01-Jun-2022 4:20 pm
Good read, sounds like a familiar story 
https://www.thecanadianbazaar.com/sex-trafficking-of-indian-girl-students-spreading-from-brampton-to-gta/In the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), pimps (sex traffickers) are preying upon international girl students at educational campuses, street corners, bus stops, workplaces and even religious places.
It is also a fact that some girl students are entering the sex trade willingly to pay their expenses.
It is estimated that a pimp can make over $200,000 yearly from a single girl, says Ms. Sunder Singh whose Toronto-based Elspeth Heyworth Centre for Women is helping the victims stop their exploitation and get trained in high-paying skills.
TORONTO: Indian international students in the GTA are increasingly falling prey to pimps and drug dealers. And the worst part is that they are being exploited mostly by people from their own Indo-Canadian community.
The arrest of three Indo-Canadian young men from Brampton in August for trafficking an 18-year-old girl in sex trade is just the tip of the fast spreading sex trafficking of Indian girl students in the GTA.
In this particular case, the Indian-origin girl was held captive by the three men and being passed around in sex trade. There could be more victims of these men since they were advertising sexual services online.
Indo-Canadian social activists at the forefront of the fight against human trafficking admit that sexual exploitation of girl students from India is increasing in the GTA and beyond.
There are also reports of an uptick in the number of girl students seeking termination of pregnancies...
...Why is the problem widespread in Brampton?
“Because the majority of girl students from India settle in a city which has a huge population from India and has many religious places. Landlords allow multiple students to live in their basements.”
Ironically, says Ms. Singh, the sexual exploitation of many girl students begins with the landlords. “Many compromise with landlords so they don’t have to pay the rent.”
Adds the elderly Indo-Canadian quoted above in this article, “People in the Indo-Canadian community know why many trucking companies, grocers, gas stations, restaurants, and workshops hire only girls – and mostly students. Because they can exploit them in horrible ways. These girls are helpless.”
