TORONTO

A teenaged escort from Montreal was subjected to violence or forced to perform sexual acts on her human trafficking master if she didn’t earn $1,000 a day in Toronto.

Albert Markareh admitted to brutally exploiting the woman as he pleaded guilty last week to human trafficking.

The details of their exploitative relationship were revealed by Crown attorney Sonia Beauchamp as she read an agreed statement of fact in front of Superior Court Justice Robert Goldstein.

The woman was 18 and had been working as an escort for several years for a pimp boyfriend — who forced her to sleep with his pals for free — when she met Markareh in Montreal in September 2014.

She asked Markareh, who told her he was driving to Toronto, for a ride because she believed she could earn more money in Toronto.

Once she arrived, Markareh controlled her completely, court heard.

The victim, whose identity is covered by a publication ban, had to earn her daily quota or was slapped around or forced to perform sexual acts on Markareh, Beauchamp said.

“While she was working, Markareh would check up on her via telephone. If she didn’t answer the phone, he would enact violence upon her,” court heard.

Markareh became enraged when he discovered she was sleeping during “busy hours” — and not billing her usual $220 an hour. He slapped her in the face in a hotel room.

He worked in tandem with another human trafficker, Lawrence “Nino” Mikaelian, 30, who is already serving the equivalent of a four-year prison sentence after pleading guilty earlier this year to similar allegations.

After the first week in Toronto, it was decided the woman wouldn’t work for Markareh “because she hadn’t made enough money,” Beauchamp said.

She later returned to Montreal, where she worked at the Gentleman’s strip club in Marieville, Que. She was tired of handing all her earnings over to Markareh and briefly eluded his control.

But she found herself in an even worse situation with another pimp, Beauchamp said.

She contacted Markareh to escape her abusive Montreal pimp and Markareh brought her back to Toronto.

“Markareh explained to her that since he ‘rescued’ her from her situation, she now owed him and had to work for him ... and pay off the car he had just bought,” Beauchamp said. She worked in Toronto from October 2014 to December 2014.

Markareh will be sentenced next year.

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