Tiger Creek shop keeper charged with trafficking girls

Ann Marie Carter

Shop keeper Ann Marie Carter, accused of forcing two girls into prostitution in the Tiger Creek Backdam, in Region Seven, was yesterday arraigned on charges of trafficking the girls for sexual exploitation.

Carter was refused bail by Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry, who read the charges to her at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

It was alleged that Carter, of 84 First Avenue, Bartica, harboured the