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Documents have revealed the new details in the case of a woman in British Columbia who pleaded guilty to more than a dozen Human beingsSexual exploitation and accusations of assault earlier this year.
Police caught Jennifer Lynn Stephens, 30, after one of his victims called 911 from a service station near a hotel in the canton of Langley in March 2023 following a brutal assault.
Global News obtained the declaration of the agreed facts detailing the 17 offenses to which Stephens pleaded guilty, dating back to January 2022.
The documents reveal how Stephens originally took the woman trapped, a sex worker whose identity is protected by a publication prohibition, by creating a false identity. The woman believed that she was engaged in a romantic relationship by SMS with Stephens’ brother, who would have been in prison and needed money.
In reality, the woman sent SMS with Stephens, who rushed to engage in long hours of sex work. The victim transferred more than $ 60,000 over the period of one year to accounts controlled by Stephens, according to documents.
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According to documents, Stephens finally installed the victim at the Langley Highway hotel on 88th avenue, where the woman lived in one room and worked in another.
Stephens finally obtained the service of a second victim, a 13 -year -old girl, of whom she was previously, had been the victim of the trafficking and which she put to work in the same hotel.
She managed to make the two victims photographed together for online advertisements, managed their customers and kept their time and their earnings closely, of which she took the majority, according to the documents.
Text messages in documents show how she used social media like Snapchat to find customers for her victims.
“I have a snapchat with 500 customers on it, so I just post a choice of girls there and label their work snap, then they get 500 legitimate guys by adding them, which is a right bank, they can make thousands of people right next to me marking them on the work snap,” she wrote in a message.
“It took me so much time to build this list of customers that I had pimps who offered me a thousand thousand to sell them but no it’s ours 😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞❤❤❤❤” “
It was at the Langley Highway hotel where Stephens and a partner engaged in a several hour assault against the first victim who finally led to his arrest when the bloody woman later called the police from a neighboring service station, according to the documents.
The victim was struck in the face, whipped with a telephone cord and had a hot wax paid on her. When the police took her to hospital, she suffered from injury to soft tissue, bruising, swelling, blurred vision and headache.
The declaration of the agreed facts goes into the graphic details of several other assaults, including another attack against the first victim in December 2022 when she broke a mirror on the woman’s head and cut it with the bursts and whipped it with a metal curtain rod. Later, the police seized a glock handgun loaded on this crime scene.
The documents reveal that Stephens used this same pistol in a 2022 stroke, a sexual assault and an extortion of another man.
The conviction in the case of Stephens is scheduled for October.
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