The issues we see with Islamic sex-grooming gangs in Europe (in particular England) has arrived in Canada...As usual, intimidation and bullying tactics were used including harm to the victims' families and threats to kill family pets.
http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/09/29/reza-moazami-vancouver-man-accused-of-pimping-out-11-teens-allegedly-dangled-girl-over-high-rise-balcony/
Brian Hutchinson | 29/09/13
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http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/09/29/reza-moazami-vancouver-man-accused-of-pimping-out-11-teens-allegedly-dangled-girl-over-high-rise-balcony/
Brian Hutchinson | 29/09/13
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| Reza Moazami |
The apartment buildings are remarkable, only because they look so ordinary, so respectable. There are at least ten of them, scattered about Metro Vancouver. According to Crown prosecutors, 11 teenaged girls, aged 13 to 19, were kept inside the buildings, in rented units, and made to work as prostitutes.
One man is alleged to have assembled and controlled this ring of threatened, assaulted and exploited females. Reza Moazami is accused of 36 crimes in all, including two counts of trafficking in persons under the age of 18, six counts of sexual assault, seven counts of procuring a person to become a prostitute, and nine counts of compelling and using threats to live on the avails of prostitution. His trial began last week in B.C. Supreme Court before judge alone and is expected to last for several months.
On Monday, the first of 11 complainants is expected to tell her story in court. None of the alleged victims — now aged 17 to 22 — can be named, thanks to a court-ordered publication ban.
Crown prosecutor Damienne Darby sketched out her case in an opening statement last week, alleging that Mr. Moazami had systematically recruited “vulnerable teenaged girls” for “his own benefit.” He pimped them, starting in 2009 until his arrest in 2011. Four of the alleged victims had worked as prostitutes before, court heard, but the rest had not. All of them lived in the Vancouver area. Some were made to work in other provinces, it is also alleged.
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| 480 Robson St, Vancouver |
Mr. Moazami used a number of methods to enlist the girls, court heard. He approached some of them in public places. They were shown into his various apartments around town, and offered what might have seemed at first a life of luxury. Drug use was encouraged, it is also alleged. Some of the girls were allowed to play with lap dogs, and they became attached to the animals. When one of his alleged victims didn’t do as told, court heard, Mr. Moazami threatened to break her pet’s neck.
Crown prosecutor Damienne Darby sketched out her case in an opening statement last week, alleging that Mr. Moazami had systematically recruited “vulnerable teenaged girls” for “his own benefit.” He pimped them, starting in 2009 until his arrest in 2011. Four of the alleged victims had worked as prostitutes before, court heard, but the rest had not. All of them lived in the Vancouver area. Some were made to work in other provinces, it is also alleged.
Mr. Moazami used a number of methods to enlist the girls, court heard. He approached some of them in public places. They were shown into his various apartments around town, and offered what might have seemed at first a life of luxury. Drug use was encouraged, it is also alleged. Some of the girls were allowed to play with lap dogs, and they became attached to the animals. When one of his alleged victims didn’t do as told, court heard, Mr. Moazami threatened to break her pet’s neck.
He also threatened and assaulted the girls, court heard. Mr. Moazami once grabbed one of the complainants by her ankles and dangled her over the railing of a high-rise balcony in downtown Vancouver, it is alleged. The condo belonged to Mr. Moazami’s mother, court heard.
Mr. Moazami is a 29-year-old Canadian citizen, short and stocky with a muscular build. None of the 36 charges made against him has been proven in court.
He was already known to police when the RCMP received a complaint in August, 2010. According to Cpl. Mike Kokkoris, an anonymous tipster claimed that women — including a minor — were being used as prostitutes inside a North Vancouver condominium building, and that “aggressive males” were involved. |
| Crown lawyer, Damienne Darby |
Cpl. Kokkoris testified that he went to the unit in question and was met at the door by an inebriated man, who said he had some “friends” inside. The Mountie told court that he entered the apartment and saw two young females in the living room. Both were “dressed in a provocative manner” in “short shorts,” Cpl. Kokkoris testified. One of the girls was just 15, he said he learned later. There was “visible drug paraphernalia” in the living room, he added, including a device commonly used to smoke crack cocaine. One of the girls clutched a small dog, he testified.
Cpl. Kokkoris looked around the rest of the apartment. In the kitchen, he opened a pantry door and discovered a second adult male hiding inside. It was Mr. Moazami. “I recognized him from previous dealings,” the Mountie told the court. “I asked him why he was hiding. He said that police made him nervous.”
Mr. Moazami was arrested for matters unrelated to the present charges. Cross-examined by Mr. Moazami’s defence lawyer, Cpl. Kokkoris acknowledged that at the time, none of the girls had said they were being used as prostitutes, or that they had been harmed by the accused.
Seven months later, police were called to a condominium tower in downtown Vancouver, at 480 Robson St. The building’s caretaker and a building resident had both called police about a possible assault in progress, involving a man and a woman. A Vancouver police constable told court on Friday that he was led to an eighth floor suite, where he encountered a distraught woman. Initially she gave police a false name, he testified, but she is now one of the 11 complainants.
Another police officer encountered Mr. Moazami in the building lobby. He was sweaty, nervous, and had scratches on his neck, the officer told the court on Friday. “He said that he had just had rough sex,” the officer testified. Mr. Moazami was arrested for failing to follow bail conditions related to another charge.
He was released again, but in October 2011 police discovered him hiding in a Vancouver bawdy house, this time behind a hot water tank. Prostitution and human trafficking charges followed. Mr. Moazami breached his bail conditions the following year, while trying to contact one of his alleged victims. He’s been in custody ever since.
Ms. Darby told the National Post that she expects all 11 complainants to testify at Mr. Moazami’s trial, along with a number of corroborative witnesses.
There is “a considerable amount of evidence in the form of photographs and text messages extracted from eight electronic devices” seized either from Mr. Moazami or from his arrest locations, she added. “We will also be seeking to file a number of Facebook communications between the complainants and the accused.”
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