Two Cambridge females charged following sex trafficking investigation

NEWS RELEASE

LONDON POLICE SERVICE

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LONDON, ON (September 10, 2021) – The London Police Human Trafficking Unit has charged three adults in relation to an investigation that began in 2020. This multijurisdictional investigation involved a collaborative effort between the London Police Service, the Waterloo Regional Police Service, the Ontario Provincial Police, the Greater Sudbury Police Service, and the Guelph Police Service.

In early June, 2020, the Human Trafficking Unit undertook an investigation into the trafficking of a female victim over the course of approximately 18 months by a man that she met when she was 16 years old. The accused began to traffic the victim in the sex trade in London and elsewhere in Ontario after she had turned 18 years old. During the course of this investigation, three other victims were located and charges have been laid in relation to historical incidents reported to police.

Jordan Hawke, 29, of no fixed address, is charged with the following offences:

• Sexual interference with a person under 16;
• Aggravated assault;
• Sexual assault;
• Exercise control over the movement of a person under 18;
• Financial/ material benefit from trafficking a person under 18;
• Withhold a travel or identity document/ trafficking a person under 18;
• Obtaining sexual services for consideration from a person under 18;
• Material benefit from sexual services provided by a person under 18;
• Procuring/ recruiting a person under 18 to provide sexual services;
• Three (3) counts of trafficking in person by recruiting/ exercising control;
• Three (3) counts of financial/ material benefit from trafficking a person over 18;
• Three (3) counts of obtaining sexual services;
• Three (3) counts of material benefit from sexual services;
• Three (3) counts of procuring/ recruiting a person to provide sexual services;
• Four (4) counts of advertising to provide sexual services;
• Causing unnecessary injury to an animal;
• Publish an intimate image without consent;
• Possession of property obtained by crime;
• Uttering threats to cause death; and
• Two (2) counts of assault.

Shelley Hawke, 53, of Cambridge, is charged with the following offences:

• Trafficking in persons by exercising control;
• Financial/ material benefit/ trafficking a person over 18; and
• Possession of property obtained by crime.

Chantal Willocks, 20, of Cambridge, is charged by way of warrant application, with the following offences:

• Trafficking in persons by exercising control;
• Financial/ material benefit/ trafficking a person over 18; and
• Possession of property obtained by crime.

Shelley Hawke and Jordan Hawke appeared in London court on September 9, 2021 and were remanded into custody.

Police believe that there are other victims and are encouraging them to come forward.

Anyone with information in relation to this incident is asked to call the London Police Service at (519) 661-5670 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477). Information can also be sent in online anonymously to London Elgin Middlesex Crime Stoppers.