The Globe and Mail reports in its Monday edition that the teenager from rural Quebec was in her last year of high school when she went missing in 2024. The Globe's Temur Durrani writes that her parents reported her disappearance to police. And then, one Thursday in late March, she sent a frantic message to a friend back home. She was being held in an Airbnb in downtown Winnipeg and needed help. Court would later hear that the Grade 12 student was caught up in a human-trafficking scheme orchestrated by 24-year-old rapper Malik Regele Marc. The Quebec teen's case is emblematic of a worsening trend that Canadian law enforcement, advocacy groups and academics have been sounding the alarm about for years: Predators are increasingly using short-term rentals on platforms such as Airbnb and Vrbo to facilitate human trafficking. Staff who work at major hotels are trained to see warning signs of trafficking. But this is not an expectation for the short-term rental industry. Court heard Mr. Regele Marc used verbal and psychological manipulation to intimidate the teen into providing sexual services to at least 50 men during the span of 15 days. Mr. Regele Marc is now serving an eight-year sentence in federal prison.