New, troubling charges have been laid against a man already accused of using and sexually abusing at least a dozen vulnerable young men and teenagers.

Sixty-four-year-old Tony Humby is now facing seven counts of child trafficking in the case.

The charges, involving anyone under 18, were sworn early this afternoon in provincial court.

That’s in addition to the 72 charges he’s already facing of personally inflicting sexual violence on his own, alleged victims.

Humby has already pleaded not guilty to those charges with a 37-day trial set to start in provincial court on March 3rd.

The new offences are alleged to have occurred between 2006 and 2022, and relate to allegations that Humby arranged hookups between his victims and other men.

His co-accused, 82-year-old Bruce Escott, has pled guilty to seven charges and will be sentenced in the new year.

The child trafficking charges may be the first of their kind in RNC jurisdiction since two child porn and prostitution cases in 2006: the infamous Big Bite Pizza porn-in-exchange-for-money, drugs and food case, and another involving a Mount Pearl man.

RCMP announced their first-ever bust for human trafficking in the province with arrests on the west coast just over two years ago.