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Alleged Human Trafficker Charged
posted (November 25, 2015)
It took Orange Walk police a few days, but they today finalized the charges against alleged human trafficker, 33 year old Guatemalan Rosa Anita Garcia. She's the owner of Dominguez Bar in Orange Walk Town where she allegedly held two women – a mother and daughter – captive, and then twice forced the younger woman to have sex with bar patrons against her will. The waitress forced into prostitution was then told that if she didn't do it – her two children in Guatemala would be killed. Garcia also allegedly locked the pair up in the bar during the day, and didn't pay them anything for their work. IT's a report that has exposed the face of human trafficking – and today Garcia was arraigned on a pair of trafficking charges; these are sexual exploitation and forced labour under the trafficking in persons act. She was remanded to jail until the 27th. January. She also faces immigration charges for being in the country illegally.

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