Human Trafficking Victim Commits Suicide at Hamilton Train Track

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60-year-old Janos Acs walked onto train tracks in central Hamilton in the early evening hours of June 10 and simply laid down to waited for the train to commit suicide. The suicide took place near Emerald St. N. and concluded an already troubled life that authorities thought they had saved. The authorities confirmed that Acs was one of the 20 people rescued by the RCMP in 2009 from human traffickers who lured them from their native Hungary on the false promise of work.

Although the infamous Domotor-Kolompar criminal organization was dismantled in one of the largest human trafficking case of Canadian history in 2010. The authorities laid out several charges against almost twenty-three members of the extended family between 2012 and 2013. However, Acs alleged that the help came too little too late. Although his abusers were successfully trialed and the victims were given safe haven, Acs ended up living his last days in Canada moving in and out of shelters, struggling to find work and drinking heavily.

According to Canada Border Services Agency regional director, Goran Vragovic, he learned of Acs’ death on Tuesday morning, i.e. a short while before a press conference announced that 20 members of the criminal family had been deported. He said that “it’s a tragic conclusion to an already sad story.” Speaking publicly, Acs mentioned during an interview in 2010 that “I feel very much betrayed and I’m pretty frustrated,” adding that “I’m kind of all alone and I have no friends to discuss the situation.”

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