Over the last four years, an Ontario police force has tried to curb the practice of men paying for sex with underage girls by having undercover officers pose as child prostitutes online.
On Friday, York regional police announced that their operation, dubbed “Project Raphael,” resulted in the arrests of 104 men allegedly looking to buy sex from children. Most arrests took place in York region north of Toronto
Det. Sgt. Thai Truong, of the force’s human trafficking team, said no girls were harmed in the operation in which officers advertised sex services online as girls between the ages of 13 and 16. Truong said that no victims of human trafficking were involved in the project and all of the suspects, who ranged in age from 18 to 81, were arrested for…
