Extreme violence routine experience for sex workers, Pickton inquiry hears

Canada.com Tuesday 18th October, 2011

VANCOUVER -- Most sex trade workers on the Vancouver streets are attacked, raped or even thrown from cars, an expert witness told an inquiry established to determine why it took so long to catch one of the country's most notorious serial killers.Kate Shannon, a public health researcher who is a professor in the faculty of medicine at the University...

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