A human trafficking trial returned to Cayuga court Monday for another trial week dealing with four Caledonia people accused of marketing an 18-year-old Brantford woman for sexual services.
The first four weeks of the trial laid out a case against Daniel Campbell, 36, Joshua Hillock, 32, Dragisa Lucic, 30 and Crystal-Anne Marier, 36, who face charges of trafficking for sexual services and benefiting from sex work.
The Brantford complainant, whose identity is protected by a publication ban, was on the stand for 12 days.
She tested that during the fall of 2019, shortly after she turned 18, the four accused, plus Carly Creor, 27, who is similarly charged but faces a separate trial, controlled her life.
She said she was advertised online and driven around to various southern Ontario hotels and motels.
“The clients were basically all day, every day,” the woman told the court in April.
She also tested the group supplied her with drugs and sent sexual clients to her in motel rooms or arranged for ‘out-calls’ where they delivered her to other locations.
She said her phone was monitored and occasionally a camera placed in her room. She turned over all her earnings, including tips, to the group.
The Crown’s team of Susan Orlando and Heather Palin filed an extensive agreed statement of facts Wednesday that included banking records, hotel records, online advertisements and the results of multiple production orders from police to get records, text messages and social media names from numerous phones and computers that were seized.
The statement showed police connected Campbell to payments made at various hotels in Cambridge, Kitchener and Guelph and car rental records.
Details on the rental of a Larry Crescent home in Caledonia were also presented. Police raided that home and gathered computers, phones, memory cards, drugs, firearms and ammunition.
The Crown has now ‘closed’ its case against the four accused.
Two lawyers for the accused have said they will not call any evidence, one will call evidence and one has yet to decide.
The case resumes tomorrow afternoon and is expected to wrap up by Friday.
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