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gangs choosing pimping over drug dealing

Postby sam » Wed Nov 08, 2006 8:38 am

Criminals find more money in prostitution than drugs, trial told

Montreal Gazette
November 07, 2006

Luring young women into prostitution has become so lucrative in Montreal, many organized criminals choose that over dealing drugs, a Montreal police detective specializing in sexual exploitation testified Tuesday.

As a backdrop to sentencing arguments for Alain Jean-Pierre, 31, a métro police officer convicted of living off the avails of prostitution, Det.-Sgt. Dominic Monchamp painted a picture of a burgeoning business in escort agencies, massage parlours, strip clubs and pornographic movies.

He said his specialized squad, set up in 2002 with 15 full-time investigators, has since been reduced to eight members for the entire province despite the rise of exploitation of increasingly younger girls.

There are two main types of pimps – those who use violence to control their “merchandise” and those who use charm to fill a void in the life of a young, neglected girl, Monchamp explained.

Jean-Pierre’s trial was told he belonged to the second group, whose aura is fed by hip-hop music in which pimps are portrayed as desirable and cool. Jean-Pierre would wear his métro police uniform, approach teen girls and offer them ice cream.

He’d court them with flowers and gifts, telling them they could make more money dancing naked than working at a fast-food restaurant. Once they agreed to dance naked, sexual favours were demanded for customers, so the girls made thousands of dollars a week.

Most of the money was turned over to Jean-Pierre, who held the girls in his emotional grip.

One of his victims, a 16-year-old whose name cannot be published, was taken to a bar where she performed oral sex and contact dances. She didn’t want to do it, Quebec Court Judge Jean-Pierre Boyer wrote after finding Jean-Pierre guilty in May, but she felt she didn’t have a choice if she wanted to win back her pimp, who had promised his love to other girls.

Jean-Pierre was arrested in February 2003 after undercover police observed him shuttling women to and from strip clubs.

Sentencing arguments are to be heard Nov. 30.
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