An 11th person has been charged in connection with an alleged human trafficking and prostitution ring.
Police had alleged teen girls were forced to work as prostitutes out of hotels and motels in the GTA and Montreal by people associated to the Galloway Boys street gang, which operates in the Galloway and Kingston roads area of Scarborough.
Victims were typically recruited in their neighbourhood, police alleged.
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"These pimps will groom them, they will build a relationship with them, they’ll try to build a trust with them, and in most cases they try to make the victim believe that they’re in love with them," Insp. Joanna Beaven-Desjardins alleged during a June 6 news conference at police headquarters.
"These victims sometimes are very vulnerable, and they’re just looking for attention and some affection, and these pimps step in and they know exactly what these young girls are looking for and they feed off that."
Ten people were arrested and charged last month.
The investigation, dubbed Project Dove, began in March.
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On July 2, officers from the human trafficking enforcement team arrested Darren Letts, 21, of Toronto. He faces 15 charges, including trafficking of a person under the age of 18 and living on the avails of juvenile prostitution.
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