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Emanuel Jaques (October 8, 1964 – July 29, 1977) was a Canadian 12-year-old boy who was murdered in Toronto. The sexual assault and murder of Jaques sparked outrage in Toronto, resulting in the conviction of three men: Saul David Betesh, Robert Kribs, and Joseph Woods for murder, and the regeneration of the city's Yonge Street downtown area. Murder
Feb 21, 2021 · Emanuel Jaques was a shoeshine boy, a child of the city, who recently arrived from Portugal with his impoverished immigrant parents. On July 28, 1977, he was lured by three men to a seedy...
Sep 18, 2013 · In August 1977, 12-year-old shoeshine boy Emanuel Jaques went missing in Toronto. He begged his parents to let him work on Yonge Street, saying there was more money to be made there than in his neighbourhood, Toronto’s Little Portugal on the west side.
- The Shoeshine Boy
- The Raids
- The Ripple Effect
A familiar face at Yonge and Dundas streets, Emanuel was often seen there shining the shoes of passersby with his brother Luciano. The brothers used their collective earnings to help their parents support them and the five siblings with whom they'd left Portugal 3½ years earlier. Emanuel thought he could earn a little more on July 28, 1977, when Sa...
Police responded by raiding massage parlours and strip clubs every night. They arrested the clubs' owners, employees and some of the patrons, Ross said. Most of the charges — related to prostitution or running a bawdy house — didn't stick. "But it's a powerful deterrent to have body rubs raided day in and day out by police who themselves are quite ...
Sex workers became targets, too, of the opinion pages, the police and by those on the street, as they began soliciting there after losing their jobs. Valerie Scott recalled that she and her colleagues used to walk home alone after they finished their shifts as dancers on the strip. After Emanuel's death they left in pairs, and took their breaks as ...
Aug 8, 2017 · It’s been 40 years since the murder of 12-year-old Emanuel Jaques, a shoeshine boy who was found dead on Yonge Street at a time when it was recognized as Toronto’s sex district. Jaques’ family...
- Erica Vella
Sep 20, 2013 · On a warm August day, Toronto awoke to headlines that missing shoeshine boy Emanuel Jaques had been found murdered, his body left on a roof above a Yonge St. body rub parlour, the 12-year-old a...
Jul 28, 2022 · Thursday marks the 45th anniversary of the horrifying sex murder of 12-year-old shoeshine boy Emanuel Jaques above the Charlie’s Angels massage parlour on a stretch of Yonge St. then...
