A murky, misunderstood hell: On the front lines of human trafficking in Ottawa

For Virginia, the end to her three-month nightmare came on a highway near Cornwall when she leapt from a moving car toward freedom.
It was September 2015, and Virginia — not her real name — had spent much of the past three months being ferried between hotel rooms and private homes in the National Capital Region, to have sex for money.
The man who claimed to be her boyfriend had convinced her that by working temporarily as a call girl she could help them build a future together: to bu