Calgary police have laid nine charges against a woman in connection with an elaborate scheme to force an 18-year-old roommate into the sex trade.
On January 11, police were contacted by the RCMP who was in contact with a family member concerned over the welfare of an 18-year-old woman they believed was in Calgary.
Officers soon located the woman at a bus station, where she told them she was being held against her will and forced to work in the sex trade for the past several months.
Police say she arrived in the city in October 2013 for work and was seeking a female roommate.
She soon met a woman who was offering an apartment with inexpensive rent and accepted the terms.
After a period of time, police say the woman began slipping her drugs in the drinks they shared together. Once the victim was incapacitated, the woman then took inappropriate photos of her and used these to extort the victim and force her into the sex trade.
A police investigation also turned up another victim of voyeurism and extortion, and managed to connect the two cases to the same suspect.
Amanda Kathleen McGee, 31, is facing nine charges:
- trafficking in persons
- administering a noxious substance to aggrieve or annoy
- live on the avails of prostitution
- keeper of a common bawdy house
- sexual assault with a weapon
- forcible confinement
- procure a person to become a prostitute
- extortion
- voyeurism
She is expected to appear in court on April 15, 2014.
